- Date
- March 16, 2008, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Idabell, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N554SPCessna 150
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Oklahoma City
- FAA report
- 20080316012179A
- Case key
- 67682
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. Factors contributing to the accident are high and gusting winds.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot overflew the runway, and checked the automated weather reporting station for the airport. The pilot stated that the station was reporting 27 to 35-knots sustained winds with gusts from 40 to 45-knots. The pilot then landed on runway 02 (a 5,000-foot by 75-foot asphalt runway) with 0-degrees of flaps. He added that during the flare, a gust of wind "picked-up" the right side of the airplane and subsequently the airplane dropped to the runway. Examination of the airplane revealed that the fuselage just aft of the engine mount attachment point was buckled.
Factual narrative
The 58-hour student pilot overflew the runway, and checked the automated weather reporting station for the airport. The pilot stated that the station was reporting 27 to 35-knots sustained winds with gusts from 40 to 45-knots. The pilot then landed on runway 02 (a 5,000-foot by 75-foot asphalt runway) with 0-degrees of flaps. He added that during the flare, a gust of wind "picked-up" the right side of the airplane and subsequently the airplane dropped to the runway. Examination of the airplane revealed that the fuselage just aft of the engine mount attachment point was buckled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N554SP
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077048
- Airframe hours
- 4,104
- Engine
- Continental O-200, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Idabel Broken Bow Paris Flying Club, doing business as Idabel Broken Bow Paris Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Idabel Broken Bow Paris Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2007
- Departed
- 1OK4 · Idabel, OK
- Destination
- Idabell, OK
- Airport
- runway 02, 5,000 × 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 79 total · 79 in this make and model · 43 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days · 47 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 16 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- K4O4
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.