- Date
- July 9, 1996, 20:08 local (Jul 10, 1996, 02:08 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4897PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 25, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960709016199A
- Case key
- 42412
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Probable cause
the student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, and his failure to maintain adequate airspeed during go-around. The student pilot's improper level-off was a 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
After touchdown, the airplane ballooned, touched down again, then ballooned again. The student pilot executed a go-around with insufficient airspeed, and lowered the nose when he heard the stall warning. The aircraft drifted to the left of the runway where it impacted the terrain nose down and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On July 9, 1996, at 2008 mountain daylight time, N4897P, a Cessna 152, sustained substantial damage when it nosed over after landing at Salt Lake City, Utah. The student pilot, who was the sole occupant of the airplane, was uninjured. No flight plan was filed for the local instructional flight. There was no report of the ELT actuating.
The student stated that the airplane ballooned after touchdown, touched down again, and ballooned again. He attempted a go-around, lowering the nose when he heard a stall warning, and the aircraft drifted to the left side of the runway where it impacted nose down and nosed over about 100 feet to the left side of the runway, sustaining damage to the landing gear, fuselage and right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4897P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152284838
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- American Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SLC
- Airport
- SLC · Salt Lake City Intl, runway 35, 9,596 × 150 ft, dirt
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 29 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 340° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.