- Date
- June 23, 1990, 11:35 local (16:35 UTC)
- Place
- Tomball, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1792QCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900623021879A
- Case key
- 23145
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Probable cause
Student pilot's failure to maintain directional control and proper alignment with timely manner after a bounced landing. A factor in the accident was the presence of a right quartering headwind.
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 airplane touched down slightly right of the centerline, with a right quartering headwind, bounced, and began to float while drifting to the right. The student pilot's attempts to correct the right drift were not effective and the airplane touched down the second time on the grass, right of the runway. The pilot, who was on his second supervised solo, saw that he was approaching a ditch and applied full power in an attempt to clear it. The airplane subsequently collided with the ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1792Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073092
- Airframe hours
- 3,345
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- United Flight Systems, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 21, 1990 · 87 hours before
- Departed
- DWH
- Airport
- DWH · David Wayne Hooks, runway 35, 4,000 × 40 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 24 total · 14 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.