- Date
- May 15, 1992, 18:35 local (23:35 UTC)
- Place
- Stilwell, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N704CJCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920515017289A
- Case key
- 18497
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot inadvertently pushed the nose down during the flare/landing. A factor was the pilot misjudged the flare/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
During the VFR landing flare/touchdown the student pilot touched down hard and bounced two consecutive times before he inadvertently pushed the nose down. When the nose gear impacted the ground, the nose gear separated from the airplane and the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704CJ
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-78502
- Airframe hours
- 4,074
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Johnson, Richard Harold
- Registered owner
- Johnson, Richard Harold
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 29, 1991 · 130 hours before
- Departed
- 44M · Cookson, OK
- Destination
- NONE · Stilwell, OK
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 36, 1,700 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 93 total · 93 in this make and model · 44 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FSM, 20 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.