- Date
- June 11, 1994, 17:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46140Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940611015039A
- Case key
- 37559
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing. .
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The airplane landed hard and then bounced on the nose gear several times until the nose gear collapsed. The aircraft then skidded off the runway and nosed over. A small post crash fire occurred in the engine compartment.
Factual narrative
On June 11, 1994, about 1725 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 152, N46140, registered to Aerial Ads, Inc., landed hard and nosed over at Gainesville Regional Airport, Gainesville, 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 pilot was not injured. The flight originated at Gainesville, Florida, on June 11, 1994, about 1715.
The student pilot stated she was performing the second landing of her first supervised solo flight. As she flared for landing she flared too much. The aircraft climbed, lost airspeed, descended, and landed hard. The aircraft bounced and landed on the nose gear several times until it collapsed. After the nose gear collapsed the aircraft slid off the runway and nosed over in the dirt. A small post crash fire occurred in the engine compartment.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46140
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283006
- Airframe hours
- 4,851
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-42C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aerial Ads, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Limited (Special); Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 4, 1994 · 71 hours before
- Airport
- GNV · Gainsville Regional, runway 24, 4,147 × 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 8 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 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.