- Date
- July 28, 1991, 11:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Brookville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9247UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910728030539A
- Case key
- 36975
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare and his improper recovery from the bounced landing.
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
According to the instructor and the student pilot, who was on the third landing of his first supervised solo, the first two approaches and landings were unremarkable. However, on the third approach, the student executed a steeper and faster than normal approach. The airplane bounced on touchdown and veered left off of the 30 foot wide runway. The pilot was unable to regain control and the airplane subsequently touched down in the grass adjacent to the runway and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9247U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078197
- Airframe hours
- 2,761
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Brookville Airpark
- Registered owner
- Brookville Airpark
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 1991 · 86 hours before
- Airport
- I62 · Brookville Airpark, runway 9, 2,500 × 30 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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 9 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 50 °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 N9247U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.