- Date
- June 1, 2005, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Willimantic, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4606XCessna 150G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 13, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA Windsor Locks FSDO
- FAA report
- 20050601010629A
- Case key
- 61620
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing and his failure to maintain directional control while landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
After takeoff, the student pilot remained in the traffic pattern and intended to practice landings in the tail-wheeled airplane. During the student pilot's first landing attempt, the airplane bounced, and touched down with a "left crab." He attempted to straighten the airplane; however, it departed the left side of the runway and struck a fence. The student pilot reported 40 hours of total flight experience, which included about 30 hours in the same make and model as the accident airplane. He did not report any mechanical malfunctions.
Factual narrative
On June 1, 2005, about 1100 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150G, N4606X, was substantially damaged while landing at the Windham Airport, Willimantic, Connecticut. The student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed for the local instructional flight.
The student pilot reported that he departed runway 27, a 4,278-foot-long, 100-foot-wide, asphalt runway. He remained in the traffic pattern and intended to practice landings in the tail-wheeled airplane. During the student pilot's first landing attempt, the airplane bounced, and touched down with a "left crab." The pilot attempted to straighten the airplane; however, it departed the left side of the runway and struck a fence.
The student pilot reported 40 hours of total flight experience, which included about 30 hours in the same make and model as the accident airplane. He did not report any mechanical malfunctions.
Winds reported at the airport, about the time of the accident, were from 140 degrees, at 3 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4606X
- Reported as
- Cessna 150G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15064656
- Airframe hours
- 1,766
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph Kaulback
- Registered owner
- Edward Kaulback
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2004 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- IJD · Willimantic, CT
- Destination
- IJD
- Airport
- IJD · Windham, runway 27, 4,278 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 29 in this make and model · 20 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.25 inHg
- Observed at
- IJD
FAA reports on this event · 1
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