- Date
- November 19, 1992, 09:58 local (14:58 UTC)
- Place
- Tallahassee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95825Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921119056409A
- Case key
- 33198
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's improper flare on landing which resulted in an in flight loss of control and collision with terrain.
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
The student pilot was conducting a full stop landing on runway 36 at Tallahassee regional airport. The pilot stated his flare was too late or not enough. The airplane collided with the runway in a nose down attitude, bounced, departed the runway to the left and came to rest in a nose down attitude sustaining substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95825
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285971
- Airframe hours
- 5,937
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tidwell, A.C.
- Registered owner
- Tidwell, A.C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 3, 1992
- Airport
- TLH · Tallahassee Regional, runway 36, 6,066 × 150 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 28 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH, 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.