- Date
- June 23, 2005, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Greenville, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46541Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 13, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20050623033329A
- Case key
- 61869
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare, and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a nose gear collapse while landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings on a 2,703-foot-long, 75-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During the flare for the fourth landing, the student pilot over-controlled and the airplane ballooned up. The student pilot then applied forward force to the yoke, and the airplane bounced on the runway twice, collapsing the nose gear. The airplane came to rest on the runway, and sustained substantial damage.
Factual narrative
On June 23, 2005, about 1700 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 152, N46541, was substantially damaged while landing at Greenville Municipal Airport (4G1), Greenville, Pennsylvania. The student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the solo instructional flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
The student pilot stated that he departed 4G1 about 1630, to practice takeoffs and landings. The student pilot completed three "touch and go's" to runway 33, a 2,703-foot-long, 75-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During the flare for the fourth landing, the student pilot "overcontrolled and ballooned up." The student pilot then applied forward force to the yoke, and the airplane bounced on the runway twice, collapsing the nose gear. The airplane came to rest on the runway, and sustained substantial damage.
The student pilot reported that the wind was light and variable at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46541
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283066
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Elbow Street Aviation Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 4G1 · Greenville, PA
- Destination
- 4G1
- Airport
- 4G1 · Greenville Municipal Airport, runway 33, 2,703 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.56 inHg
- Observed at
- YNG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.