On May 30, 1993, about 1540 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28- 161, N2816A, sustained substantial damage during a hard landing at the Eagle Creek Airport, Indianapolis, Indiana. The solo student pilot received no injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the instructional flight which operated under 14 CFR Part 91. The pilot related she was attempting to land on runway 21 when a head wind gust caused the airplane to balloon during the landing flare. The airplane subsequently contacted the runway hard on the main and nosewheel landing gear, bounced into the air and porpoised. The airplane bounced two more times on the runway surface before it veered off the runway and came to rest. In the Recommendation section of the NTSB Accident Report that the pilot submitted, she wrote that the accident could have been prevented by doing a go around.