- Date
- May 13, 1992, 12:40 local (17:40 UTC)
- Place
- Olathe, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1668QCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920513014789A
- Case key
- 15444
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, and the instructor's inadequate remedial action(s).
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 instructor and student pilot were practicing landings. The student bounced one landing and 'froze' on the controls. When the student did release the yoke, he kept full left rudder depressed. He eventually released the rudder, but the instructor was unable to regain control of the airplane before striking the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1668Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072968
- Airframe hours
- 5,359
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kansas Aircraft Corp.
- Registered owner
- Infratek Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 29, 1992 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- OJC
- Destination
- OJC
- Airport
- OJC · Johnson County Executive, runway 35, 4,099 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 37
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 952 total · 41 in this make and model · 885 as pilot in command · 192 in the last 90 days · 59 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OJC, 1 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.