- Date
- April 27, 1989, 17:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Hanover, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N757JSCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890427010419A
- Case key
- 36402
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to maintain airspeed and directional control during an attempted go around.
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
This was the pilot's first solo flight. On landing, touchdown was hard and after the aircraft bounced a few times, the pilot attempted a go around with full power, full flaps and carburetor heat off. The aircraft had climbed to about 30 feet when the stall horn sounded. The pilot made a 180 degree left turn and the aircraft struck the ground in a left wing and nose low attitude. The aircraft nosed over to an inverted attitude following impact with the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757JS
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279782
- Airframe hours
- 3,059
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ramon F. Gebhart
- Registered owner
- Cyprian N Gebhart
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1989 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- 6W6 · Hanover, PA
- Airport
- 6W6 · Hanover, runway 27, 2,610 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 14 in this make and model · 14 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.