- Date
- February 29, 1992, 13:54 local (21:54 UTC)
- Place
- San Jose, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3451VCessna 195A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920229004639A
- Case key
- 27569
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper compensation for the existing wind conditions and improper recovery from a bounced landing. Contributing to the accident was the left quartering tail/crosswind.
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
A Cessna 195A landed hard, bounced, and nosed over while landing on runway 30R with a left quartering tail/crosswind. The winds were reported to be from 190 degrees at 10 knots and the pilot failed to properly compensate for the existing wind conditions and recover from the resulting bounced landing. The pilot indicated that on touchdown the airplane swerved to the right and the nose pitched down. The propeller then struck the runway surface and the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. Post flight examination of the airplane reveal the right main gear wheel fairing had contacted the tire. The pilot indicated that the right main landing gear tire had scrape marks on both sidewalls and a gouge in the tread from contact with the wheel fairing mud scraper.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3451V
- Reported as
- Cessna 195A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7148
- Airframe hours
- 5,826
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-B2, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Penney, James H.
- Registered owner
- Penney, James H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 26, 1991 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- LVK · Livermore, CA
- Airport
- SJC · San Jose Intl, runway 30R, 4,419 × 150 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
- 67
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJC, 1 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.