- Date
- August 6, 1985, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Allentown, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N757PXCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850806039059A
- Case key
- 35939
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft touched down hard and bounced while landing at Allentown, PA. The plt stated that upon making the landing, the controls felt like the acft's nose wheel had gone flat. As he attempted to pull the nose up, the acft ballooned and came down to the side of the rwy in grass and stopped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757PX
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279906
- Airframe hours
- 2,031
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gibson Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 1, 1985
- Departed
- GAI · Gaithersburg, MD
- Destination
- ABE · Allentown, PA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ABE · Allentown Bethlehem
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 96 total · 96 in this make and model · 30 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.