- Date
- October 7, 1986, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- So. Dayton, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N50832Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861007048319A
- Case key
- 30546
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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 - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Landing gear,nose gear - failure,total
Analysis
The student pilot came in long and high, bounced the aircraft a few times. The nose wheel collpased and the aircraft was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50832
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15069584
- Airframe hours
- 1,708
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cattaraugus Flying Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Airport
- D89 · So. Dayton, runway 18, 3,880 × 60 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 3 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N50832 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.