- Date
- August 14, 2006, 09:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Crystal River, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7255GCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Tampa, Florida
- FAA report
- 20060814017609A
- Case key
- 63877
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the instructor, the winds were light and variable, and after having provided instruction and flown with the student to ensure his readiness, he took a hand-held radio and exited the airplane to supervise the student's first solo flight. The instructor further stated that the student made a good landing, but according to the student, a gust caused the airplane to float up high, and he ballooned. He said the airplane then settled onto the runway surface on the main landing gear and bounced again. According to the instructor, the student did not add power, and on the third bounce the nose of the airplane veered left, and the nose impacted the grass, which collapsed the landing gear and bent the propeller. According the the flight instructor, there were no preaccident anomalies with the airplane or any of its systems.
Factual narrative
On August 14, 2006, about 0945 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150L, N7255G, registered to, and operated by Crystal Aero Group, as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, incurred damage during a bounced landing at Crystal River Airport, Crystal River, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The student pilot was not injured, and the airplane incurred substantial damage. The flight originated in Crystal River, the same day, about 0920.
The flight instructor stated that he was supervising during the student pilot's first solo flight, and at the time of the flight the winds were light and variable. According to the instructor, after having provided instruction and flown with the student to ensure his readiness, he took a hand-held radio and exited the airplane to supervise the student's first solo flight. The instructor further stated that the student made a good landing, but according to the student, a gust caused the airplane to float up high, and he ballooned. He said the airplane then settled onto the runway surface on the main landing gear and bounced again. According to the instructor, the student did not add power, and on the third bounce the nose of the airplane veered left, and the nose impacted the grass, which collapsed the landing gear and bent the propeller. According the the flight instructor, there were no preaccident anomalies with the airplane or any of its systems.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7255G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15074627
- Airframe hours
- 7,015
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Crystal Aero Group, Inc.,
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 1, 2006 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- CGC · Crystal River, FL
- Destination
- CGC
- Airport
- CGC · Crystal River, runway 09, 4,555 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- OCF
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N7255G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.