- Date
- July 31, 1986, 19:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lenoir, NC
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8757GCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860731036779A
- Case key
- 7162
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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 plt was executing full stop landings then making a take off after each landing. He was attempting his fourth landing when the acft bounced, he applied power to try to regain control of the acft. The nose gear collapsed upon touch down, the strut dug in the sod and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8757G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062857
- Airframe hours
- 2,421
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- T.J. Moody, Sr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 12, 1986 · 32 hours before
- Airport
- NC27 · Lower Creek, runway 23, 3,200 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HKY, 14 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.