- Date
- March 6, 1994, 18:04 local (Mar 7, 1994, 00:04 UTC)
- Place
- Panama City, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48239Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940306007219A
- Case key
- 37505
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Probable cause
The improper recovery from a bounced landing by the pilot-in- command.
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 on a solo cross-country flight with a passenger. As he was attempting to land the airplane it was observed to be at a faster than normal speed. The airplane bounced once and landed on the nose gear which then collapsed. The airplane came to rest several hundred feet down the runway.
Factual narrative
On March 6, 1994, about 1804 central standard time, N48239, a Cessna 152, registered to Skyward Leasing Inc., experienced a collapsed nose gear on landing at Fannon Field, Panama City, Florida, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and there was no flight plan filed. The airplane was substantially damaged and the student pilot and one passenger reported no injuries. The origin and time of the flight originating is unknown.
Witnesses stated the airplane was fast on final approach, bounced once, landed hard, the nose gear collapsed and the airplane veered off the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48239
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283307
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard Henderson
- Registered owner
- Skyking Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 10, 1994 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- 5R4 · Foley, AL
- Airport
- PFN · Panama City
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 2 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Observed at
- PFN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.