- Date
- February 25, 1984, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ft Riley, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N10144Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840225006209A
- Case key
- 33639
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - misjudgedCause
Lack of total experience in kind of aircraftCause
Clearance - misjudgedCause
Design stress limits of aircraft - exceededCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
The student plt stated he landed hard, bounced and impacted the rwy again, collapsing the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10144
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150 74807
- Airframe hours
- 1,433
- Engine
- Continental O-200 A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ft Riley Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 25, 1984 · 111 hours before
- Departed
- HYS · Hays, KS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- FRI · Marshall Field, runway 4, 4,500 × 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
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 483 total · 11 in this make and model · 330 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MHK, 7 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.