- Date
- January 14, 1996, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Olive Branch, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68172Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960114002499A
- Case key
- 37972
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, and his failure to maintain directional control of the airplane, which resulted in a ground swerve and subsequent overload failure of the nose gear.
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
During the third solo full stop landing of the day, the airplane bounced, and the student pilot lost directional control of the airplane. The airplane then veered off the left side of the runway onto grass, and the nose landing gear collapsed.
Factual narrative
On January 14, 1996, about 1530 central standard time, a Cessna 152,N68172, registered to and operated by Douglas Aviation, Inc., was substantially damaged while landing at the Olive Branch Airport, Olive Branch, Mississippi. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. The student pilot, the sole occupant,was not injured. The flight originated about 5 minutes earlier.
The student pilot stated that the accident occurred on his third full stop solo landing attempt of the day. The student's CFI who witnessed the accident stated that the airplane touched down, bounced, then landed on the centerline of the runway. The airplane then veered off the left side of the runway onto the grass and came to rest with the nose landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68172
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152-82163
- Airframe hours
- 5,408
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Douglas Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 20, 1995 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- OLV
- Airport
- OLV · Olive Branch, runway 18, 6,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MEM, 10 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.