- Date
- August 25, 1990, 14:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Circleville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N10905Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900825036079A
- Case key
- 36722
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Probable cause
The misuse of the flight controls by the pilot and improper bounced landing recovery procedure.
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.
Analysis
The student pilot was on his first supervised solo. On final, he thought he was low, pulled back on the yoke and did not add power. The airplane struck the end of the runway and bounced. The pilot added power and the airplane bounced again on the runway then ran off the left side of the runway, over a ditch and flipped over. The winds were reported as calm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10905
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15075124
- Airframe hours
- 4,278
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Virgil Seitz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 12, 1990 · 62 hours before
- Destination
- CYO
- Airport
- CYO · Picaway Co., runway 19, 4,350 × 75 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
- 16
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 10 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N10905 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.