- Date
- October 17, 1992, 13:47 local (17:47 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6560HCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921017047059A
- Case key
- 33190
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's improper flare which resulted in the aircraft ballooning during landing, followed by his improper recovery from the ballooned landing which resulted in the aircraft touching down hard on the nose landing gear causing it to collapse.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
As the student pilot landed the aircraft it touched down and ballooned. He leveled off and again the aircraft touched down and ballooned. The aircraft's nosed then dropped and the aircraft landed on the nose gear. The nose gear collapsed and the aircraft skidded to a stop on the side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6560H
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284180
- Airframe hours
- 6,742
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- World Aircraft Sales And Leas.
- Registered owner
- World Aircraft Sales And Leas.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 1992 · 52 hours before
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry, runway 9, 3,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HWO, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6560H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.