- Date
- May 27, 1993, 10:10 local (14:10 UTC)
- Place
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3109VCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 7, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930527015639A
- Case key
- 9215
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's delayed remedial action and failure to assure recovery from a bounced landing. A factor related to the accident was: improper flare by the student pilot.
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 and flight instructor were practicing short field takeoffs and landings on a dual instructional flight. On the fourth landing, the student pilot made a hard landing and the airplane bounced. The airplane bounced a second time, higher than the first bounce. The flight instructor then took control of the airplane and completed the landing.
Factual narrative
On May 27, 1993, at 1010 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150M, N3109V, sustained substantial damage when the student pilot made a hard landing at the Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Neither the certified flight instructor, nor the student pilot were injured. The instructional flight originated at the Clark County Airport at 0830. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and no flight plan was filed.
The student pilot was practicing short field takeoffs and landing. He stated: "On the fourth landing, the aircraft experienced a hard landing causing it to bounce, which was followed by a second bounce which was greater, and caused the aircraft to gain altitude." The flight instructor took control of the airplane and landed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3109V
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076386
- Airframe hours
- 5,146
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hap'S Aerial Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 19, 1992 · 52 hours before
- Airport
- JVY · Clark County Airport, runway 36, 5,500 × 100 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 488 total · 60 in this make and model · 428 as pilot in command · 83 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SDF, 12 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.