- Date
- May 31, 1994, 17:35 local (21:35 UTC)
- Place
- Sugarloaf Key, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N50021Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940531013129A
- Case key
- 37553
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Probable cause
The improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing by the pilot-in-command.
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 solo flight in the traffic pattern. When landing, the airplane bounced once and the nose gear collapsed.
Factual narrative
On May 31, 1994, about 1735 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150H, N50021, crashed while landing at the Sugarloaf Key Airport, Sugarloaf Key, Florida. The aircraft was being operated as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional supervised solo flight. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the local flight. The airplane was substantially damaged and the pilot reported no injuries.
The student pilot stated that he landed hard, bounced once and the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50021
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15069016
- Airframe hours
- 2,686
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Matut, Rachel
- Registered owner
- Beau Joli Ciel, Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Special, Limited (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 12, 1994 · 5 hours before
- Airport
- 7X1 · Sugarloaf, runway 10, 2,700 × 100 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EYW, 11 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.