- Date
- April 21, 1993, 10:35 local (17:35 UTC)
- Place
- Lakeport, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6566GCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930421020979A
- Case key
- 27976
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Probable cause
The student pilot's delayed flare and improper bounced landing recovery technique which resulted in an inadvertent porpoise and a collision with the runway. A factor in the accident was the student's lack of total experience.
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
According to a written report filed by the operator, the flight began as a dual instructional flight to Lakeport to enable the primary student to practice takeoffs and landings. After several touch and go landings, the instructor decided to let the student perform her first supervised solo flight and got out of the aircraft. On the first solo traffic pattern, the student was high and apparently flared late, resulting in a hard landing and a bounce. The aircraft bounced twice more and then collided with the runway nose first.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6566G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072066
- Airframe hours
- 6,787
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Resort Aviation
- Registered owner
- Resort Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 8, 1993 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 209 · Clearlake, CA
- Destination
- 102
- Airport
- 1O2 · Lampson Field, runway 1, 3,660 × 40 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 26 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.