- Date
- October 27, 2006, 09:49 local (13:49 UTC)
- Place
- Lancaster, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68727Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 26, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20061027031279A
- Case key
- 64767
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate flare, which resulted in a nosegear collapse during 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
The student pilot was conducting his first solo flight in a Cessna 152. He had completed two landings on runway 13, a 4,102-foot long, 100-foot wide, asphalt runway. During the third landing, the student pilot did not flare enough, and the airplane touched down nose low. The nosegear collapsed, and the airplane came to rest on the runway.
Factual narrative
The student pilot stated that he was conducting his first solo flight in a Cessna 152. He had completed two landings on runway 13, a 4,102-foot long, 100-foot wide, asphalt runway. During the third landing, the student pilot did not flare enough, and the airplane touched down nose low. The nosegear collapsed, and the airplane came to rest on the runway. During the collapse, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The reported wind at the airport, about the time of the accident, was from 070 degrees at 5 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68727
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282340
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Tech Services
- Registered owner
- Aero Tech Services
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LNS · Lancaster, PA
- Destination
- LNS
- Airport
- LNS · Lancaster Airport, runway 13, 4,102 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 17 in this make and model · 0 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.18 inHg
- Observed at
- LNS
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 N68727 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.