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| Date: | Tuesday 26 March 2013 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Cessna 152 |
| Owner/operator: | Central Texas Flight Training Inc |
| Registration: | N48693 |
| MSN: | 15283362 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 11247 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | KCLL Easterwood Airport College Station Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Temple, TX (TPL) |
| College Station, TX (CLL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The student pilot performed two touch-and-go landings without incident. During the third landing, the airplane touched down on the main landing gear, and, as the pilot brought the airplane’s nose down, the nosewheel collapsed. A postaccident examination of the failed nose landing gear fork revealed that the final overload fracture of the fork started at a fatigue crack at the upper shoulder of the fork, which had propagated for a period of time before the final fracture. The material used to manufacture the fork met the specified engineering requirements.
Probable Cause: The failure of the nose landing gear fork during landing due to fatigue.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 January 1997 | N48693 | Marlboro Aviation Enterprise | 0 | Marlboro, NJ | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Mar-2013 02:12 | TXGunGeek | Added |
| 28-Mar-2013 02:13 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, ] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency, ] |
| 28-Nov-2017 14:15 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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