- Date
- December 15, 1996, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66211Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19961215039409A
- Case key
- 10501
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Probable cause
the pilot's misjudgment of the landing flare and inadequate airspeed, which resulted in a hard landing.
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 practicing touch and go landings, when the accident occurred. He used less than 40 degrees of flaps for the first four landings, which resulted in hard touchdowns. He used 40 degrees of flaps for the accident landing. The airplane stalled between 20 and 50 feet agl, and impacted the runway prior to sliding 50 feet and coming to rest.
Factual narrative
On December 15, 1996, at 1030 eastern standard time, a Cessna 150, N66211, flown by a student pilot collided with the runway following a loss of control during the landing flare. The landing was being made on runway 18 at the Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The airplane was substantially damaged and the pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The local flight originated from the Clark County Airport, at 1000 est.
The student pilot was practicing touch and go landings when the accident occurred. The student reported he used less than 40 degrees of flaps on the first four landings which resulted in "higher than normal descent rates due to a premature reduction in airspeed above the runway." According to the student the first four landings were "...hard landings in a nose-high attitude... ." On the fifth landing the student used 40 degrees of flaps and "...bled airspeed off enough to stall the airplane approximately 20 feet above the runway." A witness reported the airplane stalled at an altitude of approximately 50 feet above the runway.
The airplane impacted with runway and slid approximately 50 feet prior to coming to a stop 2,000 feet from the approach end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66211
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150759222
- Airframe hours
- 3,632
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Haps Aerial Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 18, 1996 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- JVY
- Destination
- JVY
- Airport
- JVY · Jeffersonville, runway 18, 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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LOU, 10 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.