- Date
- June 8, 1993, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Provincetown, MA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64932Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930608017409A
- Case key
- 37328
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to recover from a bounced landing and to maintain aircraft control which resulted in the airplane nosing over. Improper landing flare is a contributing factor.
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 completing the second leg of a three leg cross country flight. With no response from UNICOM and observing other airplanes landing, the student elected to follow the others and land on runway 07. The student pilot listened to the AWOS and thought there was a crosswind from left to right. The airplane touched down on the main landing gear, bounced into the air and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64932
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281482
- Airframe hours
- 3,932
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Narragansett Acft Maint Inc.
- Registered owner
- Narragansett Acft Maint Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 20, 1993 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- FLR · Fall River, MA
- Destination
- PVC
- Airport
- PVC · Provincetown Muni, runway 7, 3,498 × 100 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 80 total · 80 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PVC, 1 nm away
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 N64932 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.