- Date
- August 2, 1988, 19:30 local (Aug 3, 1988, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4651PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880802031479A
- Case key
- 40856
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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 practicing touch and go landings. On the eighth landing the aircraft bounced. The pilot stated that he lost control of the aircraft during the attempted recovery. The aircraft departed the runway and collided with a power company meter.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4651P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284792
- Airframe hours
- 2,505
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Tech, Inc.
- Registered owner
- John Pavel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 7, 1988 · 96 hours before
- Departed
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Airport
- S50 · Auburn Municipal, runway 34, 3,400 × 60 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 28 in this make and model · 28 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 320° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFI, 12 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.