# NTSB CEN09CA071: Cessna 150F, N8900S, Trenton, TX, November 22, 2008

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: November 21, 2008, 20:00 local (Nov 22, 2008, 01:00 UTC)
- Place: Trenton, TX
- Coordinates: 33.454444, -96.381385 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.4544&lon=-96.3814&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/092)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report April 15, 2009
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Parties: FAA FSDO
- NTSB case key (mKey): 69489
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN09CA071
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/69489/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN09CA071

## Probable cause

The pilot's improper flare during landing, resulting in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident were the night light conditions and the instructor's inadequate supervision of the pilot.

## Findings

NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause.

- [Performance/control parameters: landing flare](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062041): Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability · Not attained/maintained (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062041/cases.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 1,285 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062041/cases.md)
- [Use of equip/info: aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040): Personnel issues › Task performance · Student/instructed pilot (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 28 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040/cases.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 9,295 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040/cases.md)
- [Attention/monitoring: monitoring other person](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021535): Personnel issues › Psychological · Instructor/check pilot (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021535/cases.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 200 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021535/cases.md)
- [Light condition: dark](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03036020): Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena · Effect on personnel (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 2 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03036020/cases.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 448 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03036020/cases.md)

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/092) (defining event); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 3 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/092/sequence.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 2,102 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/092/sequence.md)
- [Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 6 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094/sequence.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 1,787 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094/sequence.md)
- [Landing-flare/touchdown: Nose over/nose down](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/096); cases with it: [Cessna 150F, 19 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/096/sequence.md?model=2071814), [All aircraft, 2,287 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/096/sequence.md)

## Analysis

A student pilot and flight instructor were performing a night landing to a private grass runway when the airplane landed hard. The airplane's nose gear then collapsed and the airplane nosed over, coming to rest in an inverted position.

## Factual narrative

A student pilot and flight instructor were performing a night landing to a private grass runway, when the airplane experienced a hard landing. The airplane's nose gear then collapsed, and the airplane nosed over coming to rest in the inverted position. .

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N8900S](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N8900S-2013-03-11), registration cancelled 2013-03-11, S/N 15062200, built 1965 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150F
- Registry model: [Cessna 150F](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150f) (registry code 2071814) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental 0-200 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-200-series) (registry code 17020, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 15062200
- Engines: CONT MOTOR O-200 SERIES 100 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, December 15, 2008
- Departed: 48TX, Trenton, TX
- Destination: 48TX, Trenton, TX
- Flight plan: Unknown
- Airport: 48TX, Tri-County Aereodrome

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Flight instructor; age 26; injuries: none; flight instructor, commercial; airplane ratings: single-engine land, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, without waivers/limitations; last flight review June 8, 2008; seat: right; flight hours: 600 total, 80 in this make and model, 560 as pilot in command, 80 in the last 90 days, 30 in the last 30 days
- Student pilot; age 26; injuries: none; student; medical: class 3, without waivers/limitations; seat: left; flight hours: 52 total, 52 in this make and model, 4 as pilot in command, 52 in the last 90 days, 15 in the last 30 days, 3 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Night
- Wind: calm
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 34 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter: 30.46 inHg
- Observed at: KTKI, 19 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20081121857039A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20081121857039A), Nov 21, 2008: Cessna 150F, Trenton, TX, Substantial damage. (-23) On 11/21/08 at approximately 2100 local time, CFI [privacy data omitted] and student pilot [privacy data omitted] made a hard landing on a grass field in…

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.

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