- Date
- February 15, 2006, 09:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Augusta, ME
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47105Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 30, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060215002289A
- Case key
- 63232
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
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 landing flare, the student pilot elected to abort the landing because the winds had shifted to a quartering tailwind. He then increased engine power and retracted the flaps. As the airplane approached the departure end of the runway, the pilot determined that the airplane did not have a sufficient climb rate, so he decided to land the airplane. During the second landing attempt, the airplane impacted the runway on the nose landing gear, which collapsed, and resulted in substantial damage to the airframe. The pilot did not report any mechanical anomalies associated with the airplane.
Factual narrative
During the landing flare, the student pilot elected to abort the landing because the winds had shifted to a quartering tailwind. He then increased engine power and retracted the flaps. As the airplane approached the departure end of the runway, the pilot determined that the airplane did not have a sufficient climb rate, so he decided to land the airplane. During the second landing attempt, the airplane impacted the runway on the nose landing gear, which collapsed it, and resulted in substantial damage to the airframe. The pilot did not report any mechanical anomalies associated with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47105
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283169
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Twin Cities Air Service LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LEW · Auburn, ME
- Destination
- AUG · Augusta, ME
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- AUG · Augusta State Airport, runway 35
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 36 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.