- Date
- July 23, 1991, 19:00 local (Jul 24, 1991, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Searcy, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7655UCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910723029779A
- Case key
- 23375
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Probable cause
The pilots misjudgment of altitude and lack of a timely flare.
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
During a supervised solo training session the student pilt was practicing touch and go landings. After completing one touch and go the student pilot was in the process of landing a second time when he misjudged his altitude and delayed his flare. The airplane landed hard and collapsed the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7655U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-77781
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Search Aviation, Inc., doing business as Searcy Air Taxi, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Search Aviation, Inc.
- Airport
- M07 · Searcy, runway 19, 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 8 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.