- Date
- August 8, 1993, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fryeburg, ME
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25211Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930808027949A
- Case key
- 38626
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing resulting in the collapse of the nose gear and the subsequent nose over. A factor was an improper flare.
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 conducting touch and go landings and was performing her second solo landing, when the accident occurred. Upon touchdown on runway 14 the airplane bounced, the nose gear collapsed, and the airplane departed the runway to the left. After leaving the runway surface the airplane nosed over.
Factual narrative
On Sunday, August 8, 1993, at about 0930 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 152, N25211, piloted by Ms. Susan Sexton, nosed over after landing at the Fryeburg Airport, Fryeburg, Maine. The airplane was substantially damaged. The pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan had been filed. The flight was being conducted under 14 CFR 91.
According to the student pilot's statement on the NTSB Form 6120.1/2:
...on my second solo landing of that day the mishap occurred...3rd landing [of the day]. I touched down on the center line of runway 14. The plane bounced. The nose wheel collapsed and there was no rudder control. The plane swerved to the left...ran off the runway...nosed over and came to rest upside down."
According to FAA Inspector, Dayton Mosher's report:
...evidence on the runway begins with 4' of rubber...a deep prop nick...15' of rubber, clear for 45'...15' of rubber...another deep prop nick...18 successive prop nicks starting...at approximately 30" intervals to a final interval of 102". The prop nicks continue for approx [sic] 56' followed by 25' of rubber until evidence of a cowling rub for 72' occurs. This entire sequence starts at the left of centerline and continues in a left curve to the soft dirt at the side of the runway. The acft [sic] slid in the soft dirt for approx [sic] 30' until flipover occurred...Ms. Sexton's statement to me was "landed, bounced harder than normal, nose wheel collapsed, lost steering...
At the time of the accident the student pilot had logged a total of 96.8 flight hours, 13.9 of which were solo flight hours, and 72 flight hours in this make and model airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25211
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 80530
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235- L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Fryeburg Aviation
- Registered owner
- Avery Lavris E. Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 28, 1993 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- B20
- Destination
- B20
- Airport
- B20 · Easternslopes, runway 14, 3,750 × 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 72 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.