- Date
- August 31, 1986, 13:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Willimantic, CT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5088QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30413
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Flare - improperCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Hard landing
Nose over
Analysis
The plt made an approach to runway 36 too fast and long. Aircraft touched down hard, the plt lost control and the aircraft bounced a few times before nosing over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5088Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285070
- Airframe hours
- 1,944
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Northeastern Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 27, 1986 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- BAF · Westfield, MA
- Destination
- Block Island, RI
- Airport
- 5BO · Windham, runway 36, 2,800 × 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
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 112 total · 11 in this make and model · 74 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
Other investigations on N5088Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.