- Date
- February 25, 1988, 19:45 local (Feb 26, 1988, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Manhattan, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8850GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34543
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Light condition - nightFactor
Stall/mush - not correctedCause
Hard landing
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
While practicing short field ldgs at night, the pilot stated he felt he stalled on final about 15 to 20 feet above the runway. The aircraft bounced three times, striking each wing on the first two touchdowns and collapsing the nose gear assembly on the last touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8850G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062650
- Airframe hours
- 4,595
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Spicer Aircraft
- Registered owner
- Go Leasing Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 17, 1987 · 78 hours before
- Airport
- MHK · Manhattan, runway 21, 7,000 × 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 230 total · 31 in this make and model · 135 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MHK