- Date
- April 18, 1990, 18:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Castle, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48259Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900418020019A
- Case key
- 36626
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision of the student pilot by the flight instructor which resulted in a hard landing. Factors related to the accident was the improper use of the flight controls by a student pilot.
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
The instructor and student pilot were practicing landings. On the last approach and landing, the student raised the airplane to a level attitude and the stall warning horn went off. According to the flight instructor, the student pilot pushed forward on the control yoke, putting the airplane in a nose low pitch attitude. The nose wheel struck the runway and sheared off, prior to the flight instructor regaining control of the airplane. The airplane stopped in about 200 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48259
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283314
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Stenson Aviation
- Departed
- BVI · Beaver Falls, PA
- Airport
- G01 · Beaver Co., runway 23, 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 842 total · 449 in this make and model · 740 as pilot in command · 155 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 24 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N48259 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.