Incident Overview
An FAA Inspector interviewed the pilot and examined the aircraft following an accident during a training flight. The pilot had completed two landing patterns with a certified flight instructor in preparation for his second solo flight. After the instructor deplaned, the student pilot successfully performed two touch-and-go landings. On the third landing, the aircraft landed hard, bounced, and then touched down on the nose wheel.
Pilot Account
The student reported that the bounce "was very high and I [tried] to pitch down and let it glide, but the nose wheel touch[ed] down first." As a result, the nose wheel folded back along the underside of the fuselage, and the left wingtip struck the runway, bending the wing spar.
Aircraft Damage
Examination of the airplane revealed the nose wheel assembly had collapsed rearward, and the left wingtip had impacted the runway surface, causing structural damage to the wing spar.