- Date
- March 18, 1995, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hattiesburg, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6055GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 18, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950318006519A
- Case key
- 37745
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot-in-command to perform a recovery from a bounced landing, resulting in a hard landing and subsequent collapsing of the nose gear.
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 pilot stated he was performing touch-and-go landings on runway 31. On his third landing, he encountered a gust of wind, and the airplane ballooned. The nose dropped suddenly, and the nosewheel struck the runway. The airplane bounced, went into a tail low attitude, hit the runway with the main landing gear, and bounced again. The airplane collided in a nose-down attitude, collapsing the nosegear.
Factual narrative
On March 18, 1995, about 1200 central standard time, a Cessna 150K, N6055G, registered to Southeast Aviation, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, experienced a hard landing at the Bobby L. Chain Municipal Airport, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot was not injured. The flight originated about 35 minutes before the accident.
The pilot stated he was making touch-and-go landings to runway 31. On his third landing he encountered a gust of wind, and the airplane became airborne. The nose dropped suddenly and the nosegear struck the runway. The airplane bounced back into the air in a tail low attitude, collided with the runway on the main landing gear, bounced, collided with the runway in a nose- down attitude, and collapsed the nosegear.
Review of weather information obtained from the FAA, for the time period of the accident, revealed no recorded record of turbulence, downdrafts, gusts, or windshear.
The accident was reported to the NTSB by Southeast Aviation on March 29, 1995.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6055G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071555
- Airframe hours
- 2,885
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Southeast Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 15, 1995 · 45 hours before
- Airport
- HBG · Bobby L. Chain Municipal, runway 31, 6,219 × 150 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 13 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIB, 14 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.