- Date
- April 6, 1994, 08:29 local (12:29 UTC)
- Place
- Pompano Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24737Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940406010629A
- Case key
- 37521
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, resulting in a porpoise of the aircraft and nose gear 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
The student pilot stated that on landing attempt the aircraft landed hard and bounced. The aircraft then began to porpoise until the nose gear collapsed.
Factual narrative
On April 6, 1994, about 0829 eastern daylight time, N24737, a Cessna 152, landed hard, at Pompano Beach Airport, Pompano Beach, Florida, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. The airplane is registered to, and operated by Pompano Air Center Inc. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The airplane was substantially damaged and the student pilot reported no injuries. The flight had originated about 20 minutes earlier.
The student pilot was on an attempted full-stop landing when the airplane landed hard on the nose gear, bounced, began to porpoise, then landed on the left wing tip and propeller after the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24737
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280348
- Airframe hours
- 7,366
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pompano Air Center
- Registered owner
- Pompano Air Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Special, Provisional (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 10, 1994 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- PMP · Pompano Airpark, runway 14, 4,419 × 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 11 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PMP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.