- Date
- June 7, 1995, 11:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Archer, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3888JCessna 150G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950607018109A
- Case key
- 37778
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare/touchdown resulting in a hard/bounced landing, and subsequent nose over. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's 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
A witness observed the student pilot make a hard landing, bounce into the air, land hard again, collapse the nose gear, and nose over on the runway.
Factual narrative
On June 7, 1995, about 1115 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150G, N3888J, registered to a private individual, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, experienced a hard landing at Archer Flying Ten Airport, Archer, Florida, and crashed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot was not injured. The flight originated from Archer Flying Ten Airport, about 15 minutes before the accident.
A flight instructor who observed the accident, stated the student pilot was conducting a touch-and-go landing at the time of the accident. He observed the airplane land hard, bounced into the air, landed hard again, collapse the nose gear, and nose over on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3888J
- Reported as
- Cessna 150G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15065188
- Airframe hours
- 7,000
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Frank Ogborn
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 11, 1995 · 1,113 hours before
- Departed
- 0J8
- Airport
- OJ8 · Flying 10, runway 18, 3,400 × 200 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 34 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 18 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.