Cessna 152 N64936

Summary

On 21 June 1997 at about 02:30 local time, a Cessna 152 registered N64936, operated by Ferland, Inc., was involved in an accident near Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

21 June 1997 at 02:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States

Nearest airport

Orangeburg Municipal (OGB)

Coordinates

33.4899, -80.8590

Aircraft

Cessna 152

Registration

N64936

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Ferland, Inc.

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night/Bright

NTSB number

MIA97LA193

Nobody was injured.

Failure of the pilot to recover from the bounced landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilots complacency.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

While practicing night landings for currency, the airplane touched down then bounced. The pilot then applied forward elevator input and the airplane touched down and bounced again. The power remained at idle and the airplane then stalled and impacted the runway nose low causing the nose landing gear to collapse. The pilot stated that he was not concentrating on the accident landing but thinking about the next landing and was in a rush to complete the landings. He further stated that he should have applied power to go-around after the airplane bounced the first time.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.