ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 357688
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| Date: | Thursday 7 March 1996 |
| Time: | 14:55 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 152 |
| Owner/operator: | Aerleon Flight School |
| Registration: | N5531M |
| MSN: | 15284606 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Engine model: | Continental O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Las Vegas, NV -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | , NV (KVGT) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After flying in the practice area, the student pilot returned to the traffic pattern to perform touch-and-go landings in a calm wind condition. The student stated that as she flared to land, the airplane bounced. After several bounces, the nose landing gear collapsed. According to the operator, the student's instructor had not followed the school training cirriculum and had provided inadequate instruction regarding recovery from difficulties in the landing phase of flight.
Probable Cause: the student pilot's improper flare and improper recover from a bounced landing, which resulted in a hard landing and collapse of the nose gear. A factor relating to the accident was: the flight instructor's inadequate instruction concerning recovery from bounced landings.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB LAX96LA127
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 13-Mar-2024 20:40 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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