- Date
- August 6, 1992, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Farmington, MD
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5633ECessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920806029589A
- Case key
- 37195
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper level off which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing was an inadeuate recovery from a bounced landing, and the pilot's lack of total flight experience.
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 said, '...descended for flare to landing. Misjudged rate of closure for flare with runway surface....contacted ground on all three wheels, bounced...came down...on nose wheel breaking off nose wheel....overturned airplane.' Pilot was conducting a solo cross country flight. Pilot had 143 hours total flight time, but approximately 70 hours were accumulated in 1941. He had approximately 15 hours solo flight time.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5633E
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17133
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- George B. Zebley
- Registered owner
- George B. Zebley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 6, 1991 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- N92 · Middletown, DE
- Airport
- 1W6 · Farmington, runway 36, 1,700 × 70 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
- 76
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 144 total · 140 in this make and model · 27 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 61 °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 N5633E · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.