- Date
- March 2, 1996, 10:55 local (15:55 UTC)
- Place
- Lawrenceville, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5399PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 6, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960302004409A
- Case key
- 37989
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Probable cause
the pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing and his failure to maintain directional control.
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 aircraft bounced during landing and was 30 degrees to runway heading when it again touched down. The aircraft went off the left side of the runway, crossed over a taxiway, and came to rest in a grass area adjacent to the taxiway. As the aircraft crossed the taxiway the nose landing gear collapsed and the left wing contacted the ground.
Factual narrative
On March 2, 1996, about 1055 eastern standard time, a Cessna 152, N5399P, registered to American East Airways, Inc., went off the runway and collapsed the nose landing gear when control was lost during landing at Gwinnett County Airport, Lawrenceville, Georgia, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft was substantially damaged and the student-rated pilot was not injured. The flight originated from Lawrenceville, Georgia, the same day, about 1000.
The pilot stated that upon landing with a right crosswind the aircraft touched down hard and bounced back into the air. The aircraft touched down again, 30 degrees to the left of runway heading. The aircraft went off the runway, crossed over a taxiway, and came to rest in the grass adjacent to the taxiway. The nose landing gear collapsed as the aircraft went over the taxiway and the left wing contacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5399P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284937
- Airframe hours
- 3,580
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviation Training Consultants
- Registered owner
- American East Airways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 1, 1995 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- LZU
- Airport
- LZU · Gwinnett County, runway 25, 6,000 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 18 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ATL, 32 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.
Other investigations on N5399P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.