# NTSB MIA95LA146: Cessna 150G, N3888J, Archer, FL, June 7, 1995

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: June 7, 1995, 11:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place: Archer, FL
- Coordinates: 29.529003, -82.510757 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.5290&lon=-82.5108&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report August 31, 1995
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 37778
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=MIA95LA146
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/37778/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA95LA146

## 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

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Hard landing, landing - flare/touchdown
  - flare - misjudged, pilot in command (cause)
  - recovery from bounced landing - not performed, pilot in command (contributing factor)
- Nose gear collapsed, landing - flare/touchdown
  - landing gear,nose gear - overload
- Nose over, landing

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N3888J), registered now, S/N 15065188, built 1966 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150G
- Registry model: [Cessna 150G](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150g) (registry code 2071816) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental 0-200 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-200-series) (registry code 17020, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 15065188
- Airframe hours: 7000
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 62; 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19950607018109A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19950607018109A), Jun 7, 1995: Cessna 150G, Archer, FL, Substantial damage. Landed hard bounced and came down hard on nose gear collapsing same. Nosed over.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.