- Date
- November 26, 2007, 11:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Venice, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N461TCCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 67166
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced 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 his first solo flight, the student pilot flew the Cessna 152 "fast" on final approach and flared higher than normal. The airplane bounced on the runway, and the student pilot initiated a go-around. He then lost control of the airplane, and it impacted grass off to the side of the runway. The student pilot reported no mechanical anomalies and stated that he used 10-degrees of flaps instead of 30-degrees during the approach. At the time of the accident, the student pilot had accumulated 23 hours of total flight experience, all in the make and model, and within the previous 90 days.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that during his first solo flight, the Cessna 152 was "fast" on final approach, and he flared higher than normal. The airplane bounced on the runway, and the student pilot initiated a go-around. He then "lost control of the airplane," and it impacted grass off to the side of the runway. The student pilot reported no mechanical anomalies and stated that he used 10 degrees of flaps instead of 30 degrees during the approach. At the time of the accident, the student pilot had accumulated 23 hours of total flight experience, all in the make and model, and within the previous 90 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N461TC
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283103
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Florida Flight Training Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Venice, FL
- Destination
- VNC · Venice, FL
- Airport
- VNC · Venice Municipal Airport, runway 13, 4,999 × 150 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 17
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Observed at
- SRQ, 21 nm away