- Date
- July 24, 1990, 11:18 local (18:18 UTC)
- Place
- Redmond, OR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8756GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900724028339A
- Case key
- 41247
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to properly recover from a 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
During this student pilot's initial solo flight, she landed hard and bounced. The student attempted to go around, but lost control of the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8756G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062856
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Butler Aircraft
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- RDM
- Airport
- RDM · Roberts Field, runway 28, 7,000 × 150 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 17 total · 17 in this make and model · 17 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- RDM
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.