- Date
- December 17, 1990, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lincoln Park, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89627Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901217063199A
- Case key
- 36861
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Probable cause
Improper recovery from a bounced landings.
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 student pilot was making his second landing on his first supervised solo with calm winds on a 2982 x 40 foot runway, when he bounced. The airplane drifted left and both wing tips touched the ground prior to the airplane coming down on the nose wheel. The nose wheel broke off and the airplane came to rest off the left side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89627
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282806
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Lincoln Park Aviation
- Departed
- N07
- Airport
- N07 · Lincoln Park, runway 1, 2,982 × 40 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- 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 N89627 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.