# NTSB MIA88FA244: Cessna 150M, N63354, Pahokee, FL, August 3, 1988

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Field investigation · Final report
- Date: August 3, 1988, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place: Pahokee, FL
- Coordinates: 26.810977, -80.660919 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.8110&lon=-80.6609&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 1 serious
- Status: Completed, report September 25, 1989
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 32034
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=MIA88FA244
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/32034/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA88FA244

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Hard landing, landing - flare/touchdown
  - recovery from bounced landing - inadequate, pilot in command (cause)
- Loss of control - in flight, landing - aborted
  - airspeed - not maintained, pilot in command (cause)
  - stall/spin - inadvertent, pilot in command (cause)
- In flight collision with terrain/water, landing - aborted
  - terrain condition - ground

## Analysis

THE ACFT CRASHED WHILE THE PLT WAS ATTEMPTING A TOUCH AND GO LANDING AT PAHOKEE AIRPORT, PAHOKEE FL. THE PLT STATED THAT WHEN HE LANDED ON RUNWAY 17, THE ACFT BOUNCED. AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING A GO AROUND, HE LOST CONTROL. THE ACFT STALLED, BROKE LEFT, AND CRASHED IN THE GRASS OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N63354](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N63354-1991-08-12), registration cancelled 1991-08-12, S/N 15077258 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150M
- Registry model: [Cessna 150M](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150m) (registry code 2071830) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 15077258
- Airframe hours: 6948
- Engines: CONTINENTAL O-200-A 100 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Destroyed
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Registered owner: Turair Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: 100 hour, July 1, 1988, 50 hours before
- Departed: APF, NAPLES, FL
- Flight plan: VFR
- Airport: PHR, Pahokee, runway 17, 4,620 × 75 ft, asphalt

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 19; student; medical: class 1, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; seat: left; flight hours: 28 total, 28 in this make and model, 7 as pilot in command, 28 in the last 90 days, 18 in the last 30 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 80° at 8 knots
- Visibility: 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: PBI, 30 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19880803064979A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880803064979A), Aug 3, 1988: Cessna 150M, Pahokee, FL, Destroyed. Bounced and porpoised on landing. Tried to go around and stalled. Broke left and crashed along side of runway.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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