- Date
- September 24, 1990, 15:23 local (20:23 UTC)
- Place
- Arlington, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66689Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900924046399A
- Case key
- 23182
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly flare the airplane for landing and his failure to initiate the proper recovery procedures following the bounced 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 stated that after a normal approach and landing, he experienced a nose wheel shimmy and the airplane pulled to the left. He stated that his attempts to raise the nose wheel off of the runway resulted in the airplane becoming airborne once or twice, and that on the second or third touchdown the nose gear collapsed. He said the airplane had a history of nose wheel shimmy and that it had occurred on the previous takeof. A CFI who observed the accident said the approach was normal but, instead of flaring, the airplane nosed down and hit the runway in a 'classic wheelbarrow nose wheel first configuration.' The then saw the airplane bounce and come down on the nose a second time and the nose gear collapsed. No evidence of pre-impact failure or malfunction was found and the operator's records did not indicate a history of nose gear shimmy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66689
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076212
- Airframe hours
- 4,135
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cameron, Marcus R., doing business as Cam-Air
- Registered owner
- Cameron, Marcus R
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 17, 1990 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- F67 · Grand Prairie, TX
- Destination
- F54
- Airport
- F54 · Arlington Muni., runway 16, 4,000 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 59 total · 49 in this make and model · 26 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DFW, 15 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.