- Date
- March 4, 1992, 12:16 local (17:16 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N40SACessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920304005049A
- Case key
- 33071
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Probable cause
The improper in flight decision by the pilot-in-command to land with an excessive rate of descent and airspeed. Contributing to the accident was the pilot-in-command's improper recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in an on ground loss of control (porpoise of the airplane), collision with terrain and subsequent nose over of the airplane.
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 student pilot was on a VFR solo cross country flight. The pilot stated upon arrival at the destination airport that he conducted a tight approach to the landing runway. The approach was steep and fast. On touchdown, the airplane bounced and porpoised two times on the nose wheel prior to departing the runway. The pilot stated, 'I lost control of the airplane. The airplane departed the runway, nosed over, and came to rest inverted.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40SA
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071448
- Airframe hours
- 5,645
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Crystal Aero Group Inc.
- Registered owner
- Crystal Aero Group Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 4, 1992 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- X-31 · Crystal River, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- GNV · Gainesville Regional, runway 24, 4,147 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 63 total · 30 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 1 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.