- Date
- April 15, 1993, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Boulder City, NV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5836GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930415009399A
- Case key
- 27957
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Probable cause
The instructor's inadequate bounced landing recovery and airspeed management during the attempted go around, which led to an inadvertent stall and the instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight. A factor in the accident was the instructor's low total time as a flight instructor.
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 instructor said the student was making a planned full stop landing on runway 33 and the aircraft bounced badly. The instructor said he took control of the aircraft, added power, retracted the flaps and attempted to initiate a go around. Ground witnesses observed the aircraft travel about 3,000 feet down the runway in ground effect while drifting to the left with the wings rocking back and forth. The aircraft then descended and hit the ground on the right wind and nose.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5836G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071336
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Proflite, Inc.
- Registered owner
- James D. Hossler
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- L15 · Las Vegas, NV
- Destination
- L15
- Airport
- 61B · Boulder City Muni, runway 33, 3,850 × 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 250 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 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.