- Date
- February 25, 2002, 15:35 local (20:35 UTC)
- Place
- Ormond Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9890JCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA FSDO-15
- FAA report
- 20020225005249A
- Case key
- 54252
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare and failure to recover from a bounced landing resulting in the subsequent collapse of the nose gear during the landing flare touchdown. A factor contributing to the accident was the student pilot's lack of total experience.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The student pilot entered the traffic pattern for landing. The pilot flared too high, bounced, and did not add power in an attempt to recover from the bounced landing resulting in the collapse of the nose gear. The student pilot had recorded as logged 8.5 total hours as pilot-in-command.
Factual narrative
On February 25, 2002, about 1535 eastern standard time, a Cessna 150M, N9890J, registered to Ormond Beach Aviation Inc., operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, crashed on landing at Ormond Beach Municipal Airport, Ormond Beach, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot was not injured. The flight originated from St. Augustine, Florida, at 1500.
The student pilot stated she called Ormond Beach UNICOM about 4 miles north of the airport, gave her position, and requested landing information. The student pilot entered downwind for runway 08. She flared high and the airplane bounced. She did not add power to recover from the bounced landing and the airplane collided with the runway collapsing the nose gear.
When student pilot was asked why she did not apply power, she stated she did not know. When the student pilot asked if she experienced any precrash mechanical failure or malfunction with the airframe, flight controls or engine assembly, she stated no.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9890J
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A1S00699
- Airframe hours
- 12,246
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A48, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ormond Beach Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 14, 2002 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- SGJ · St. Augustine, FL
- Destination
- OMN · Ormond Beach, FL
- Airport
- OMN · Ormond Beach Municipal, runway 080, 4,004 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 43 total · 35 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 29, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 642 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 N9890J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.