- Date
- July 19, 2015, 21:00 local (Jul 20, 2015, 05:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mekoryuk, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3392JCessna 150G
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 15, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20150719014049A
- Case key
- 91663
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper decision to land on an unsuitable landing surface which resulted in a nose over.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was landing on a remote tidal beach in a tricycle landing gear-equipped airplane. He stated that after making several passes over the intended landing site, he made a normal approach and landing. During the landing rollout, the nose gear stuck in the sand, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer. The pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot was landing on a remote tidal beach in a tricycle landing gear-equipped airplane. He stated that after making several passes over the intended landing site, he made a normal approach and landing. During the landing rollout, the nose gear stuck in the sand, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer. The pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3392J
- Reported as
- Cessna 150G (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15066092
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 4,746.3
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-200 SERIES, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harvey Paul B
- Registered owner
- Harvey Paul B
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 2, 2015
- Departed
- PAMY · Mekoryuk, AK
- Destination
- PAMY · Mekoryuk, AK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 14, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total · 200 in this make and model · 250 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- PAMY
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 22, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 632 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N3392J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.