- Date
- June 8, 1994, 09:52 local (13:52 UTC)
- Place
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6159QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940608019929A
- Case key
- 37557
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and failure to maintain directional control during the aborted landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
While performing his first solo landing the student pilot landed hard and the aircraft bounced into the air. He initiated a go- around. During the go-around the aircraft veered to the left. Believing that he was going to hit vehicles parked to the side of the runway the pilot landed the aircraft in the grass. During landing roll the aircraft's nose gear collapsed.
Factual narrative
On June 8, 1994, about 0952 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 152, N6159Q, registered to Executive Pilot Service, Inc., crashed to the side of runway 8 while landing at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft received substantial damage and the student-rated pilot was not injured. The flight originated at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 8, 1994, about 0940.
The student pilot stated that he was on his first supervised solo flight and he was performing his first landing. His instructor was observing from the control tower. As he flared for landing the aircraft touched down hard and bounced into the air. He initiated a go-around. During the go-around the aircraft drifted to the left of the runway and appeared to be in line to collide with a cluster of vehicles. To avoid hitting the vehicles he reduced the engine power to idle and landed the aircraft in the grass area adjacent to the runway. On touchdown the aircraft's nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6159Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285176
- Airframe hours
- 11,982
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cavair, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Executive Pilot Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Provisional (Special); Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 3, 1994 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- FXE · Ft. Lauderdale Executive, runway 8, 6,001 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FXE, 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.