- Date
- April 27, 1987, 15:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- Renton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6312PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870427075739A
- Case key
- 40617
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During touch and goes the student plt landed hard and flat. The aircraft then bounced three times and at the end of the third bounce landed on the nose gear and propeller collapsing the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6312P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284998
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Beau Walker, doing business as Renton Flight Service
- Registered owner
- Beau Walker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RTN · Renton, WA
- Airport
- RTN · Renton Municipal, runway 33, 5,379 × 200 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 12 total · 2 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RTN
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 N6312P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.