- Date
- May 28, 1990, 14:29 local (18:29 UTC)
- Place
- White Cloud, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8098FCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 8, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900528017669A
- Case key
- 14673
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain control of the airplane during a landing flare and touchdown. The pilot's lack of total aviation experience is a factor in the accident.
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 was on his third supervised solo. The airplane bounced on landing and then came down left wing first. The airplane then went off the paved runway and nosed over in mud.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8098F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15064198
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Warren C. Juhl
- Airport
- 42C · White Cloud
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 14 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Observed at
- GRR, 40 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.
Other investigations on N8098F · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.