- Date
- July 12, 1989, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Deland, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5814GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890712025859A
- Case key
- 32460
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Probable cause
Improper flare by the pilot and his improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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
On the student plt's first touch-&-go landing on this flt, the acft bounced after touchdown. The student added power, but the acft settled, touched down on the nose gear & the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5814G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071314
- Airframe hours
- 2,728
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Lee, Robert M.
- Registered owner
- Lee, Robert M
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1989 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- 1J6 · Bob White, runway 27, 3,300 × 72 ft, grass/turf
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
- 55
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 23 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.
Other investigations on N5814G · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.