What happened
The incident occurred during a local training flight involving a student pilot operating under supervision. This event marked the student's second supervised solo flight. Following a thirty-minute period of local flying, the pilot returned to the airport with the specific objective of practicing full-flap touch-and-go landings on runway 9.
At the time of the operation, wind conditions were recorded from one hundred degrees at a speed of eleven knots. During the initial landing attempt, the aircraft touched down at approximately seventy knots. The touchdown was firm, resulting in a bounce. The pilot applied additional power to maintain altitude but experienced a second bounce upon subsequent contact with the runway.
On the third touchdown, the nose gear failed structurally, leading to a collapse of the nosewheel assembly. No further details regarding injuries or specific aircraft damage beyond the nose gear are provided in the source record.
The investigation
The available source material does not contain specific findings from a mechanical examination or investigative analysis of the aircraft components. Consequently, no technical findings can be reported.