# Accident 19980920040799A: Cessna 150M, Oklahoma City, OK, September 20, 1998

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 20, 1998, 14:45 local time
- Place: Oklahoma City, OK
- Airport: Clarence E Page Municipal Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Touch And Go Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 35.4881° N, 97.8236° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CLARENCE E PAGE MUNI (RCE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.4881&lon=-97.8236&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6107K, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6107K-2013-08-23) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 150M (registry code 2071830, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150m) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental 0-200 series (registry code 17020, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-200-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150M
- Reported engine: CONT O200A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 32 total, 31 in this make and model, 32 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB FTW98LA403](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW98LA403) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980920040799A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(.4) ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1998, AT 1445 CENTRAL DAYLIGHT TIME, A CESSNA 150M AIRPLANE, N6107K, OWNED AND OPERATED BY A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL, WAS SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED DURING A HARD LANDING AT THE CLARENCE E. PAGE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT NEAR YUKON, OKLAHOMA. THE STUDENT PILOT WAS ON HER THIRD SOLO TRAINING FLIGHT AND WAS NOT INJURED. VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED, AND A FLIGHT PLAN WAS NOT FILED FOR THE TITLE 14 CFR PART 91 TRAINING FLIGHT WHICH ORIGINATED FROM THE WILEY POST AIRPORT NEAR BETHANY, OKLAHOMA, AT 1330. THE STUDENT PILOT REPORTED THAT SHE HAD BEEN PRACTICING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS TO RUNWAY 17R. ON THE FOURTH LANDING, SHE THOUGHT SHE "FLARED TOO EARLY RESULTING IN A HARD LANDING." THE AIRCRAFT BOUNCED AFTER THE INITIAL TOUCHDOWN AND THE STUDENT PILOT LOWERED THE NOSE AND TOUCHED DOWN A SECOND TIME ON THE NOSE GEAR WHICH COLLAPSED. EXAMINATION OF THE AIRCRAFT BY THE FAA INSPECTOR REVEALED THE NOSE GEAR, FIREWALL, PROPELLER AND LOWER FUSELAGE WERE DAMAGED. THE STUDENT PILOT HAD ACCUMULATED 32 HOURS FLIGHT TIME OF WHICH 31 HOURS WERE IN THE SAME MAKE AND MODEL OF AIRCRAFT. (-23) STUDENT PILOT PRACTICING LANDINGS MIGHT HAVE FLARED EARLY AND STALLED                         VERY CLOSE TO THE GROUND STRIKING THE NOSE WHEEL FIRST WITH HIGH RATE OF IMPACT ON NOSE GEAR. NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED, AIRCRAFT BOUNCED AND STRUCK NOSE A SECOND TIME ON LANDING. CONTROLS WERE UNUSABLE DURING BOUNCE.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB FTW98LA403](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW98LA403), Sep 20, 1998: Cessna 150M (N6107K), Yukon, OK, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and her improper recovery procedures for a bounced landing.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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