Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Student
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 31; Flight Crew Total 60; Flight Crew Type 30
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Distraction
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Other / Unknown; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; General Evacuated
Human Factors
Prior to making the flight from ZZZ to ZZZ1; I met with my Flight Instructor to review my flight plan and briefing which I created. All parameters were within the confines of my limitations for my student pilot endorsements for a student solo; cross-country operation. This was my first cross-county solo flight in the aircraft. I was to make two full-stop landings at ZZZ1 as part of the flight; then return to ZZZ. Takeoff from ZZZ and cruise to ZZZ1 were uneventful. I flew at 5;500 feet and reported transitioning the airspace above a non-controlled airport along the way. Immediately after reporting this transition; and well prior to entering the Delta Airspace of ZZZ1; I switched my COM2 radio to ZZZ1 and got the latest automated weather report. I do not recall what the letter designation for the report was at the time; but the weather was clear with good visibility of 10+ miles; winds relatively calm; and a clear sky. I then radioed the tower at ZZZ1 on their frequency and identified myself as a student pilot solo flight along with my relative position west of the airport and requested a full-stop landing while approximately 15nm away.The Tower answered saying they were having difficulty hearing my transmission and to restate my position. I spoke more loudly and clearly; identifying my position as west at about 14.6 miles. They advised me to re-contact them when less than a mile from the runway.  I began a descent appropriate to arrive at pattern altitude prior to radio contact. When I got within a mile I radioed the tower and the tower advised me to turn for my base and that I was cleared to land. I executed turns to base and final without issue and extended full flaps incrementally. Upon entering final approach with full-flaps I was just high of the glideslope as indicated by the PAPI system. I entered my flair and 'ballooned' slightly. When I came back down from ballooning; I came down hard and in the process; experienced prop strike; front gear collapse; and damage to my right wing before coming to a stop on the grass to the left of the runway with the help of the grass to arrest my momentum. The plane came to rest in a nose-down fashion at an approximate 45 degree angle to the edge of the runway and in the direction of the landing. After announcing over the radio that they have a crash on the runway; the tower radioed me to ask my condition and I replied that I was fine. I then noticed fuel leaking from my right wing and elected to shut down electrical items as a precaution. When the airport firetruck arrived; the operator sprayed foam on the area leaking as a precaution for the fuel leak. After several minutes; the responding airport staff strapped the nose wheel to the fuselage and were able to pull the plane to a storage hangar with a tractor by keeping the plane on the main landing gear and tugging the plane via the tail tie-down.
Student Pilot flying a solo cross country reported loss of control upon landing resulting in collapsed nose gear; prop strike and coming to a stop off the runway.