- Date
- May 19, 1982, 13:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Monongahela, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N45946Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 19, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820519016759A
- Case key
- 71749
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During a practice landing the aircraft landed hard and bounced back into the air. The student pilot applied excessive forward pressure on the yoke causing the aircraft to land hard a second time in a nose low condition. The instructor pilot tried to salvage the landing but was not successful. On the third bounce the aircraft swerved off the right side of the runway onto a grassy area where the nose gear collapsed and the left wing tip contacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45946
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282955
- Airframe hours
- 1,437
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kerr Aviation & Leasing Corp.
- Registered owner
- Kerr Aviation & Leasing Corp.
- Departed
- G08 · Monongahela, PA
- Destination
- G08 · Monongahela, PA
- Airport
- G08 · Rostraver, runway 25, 4,000 × 75 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
- 33
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 466 total · 264 in this make and model · 338 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
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 N45946 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.