- Date
- April 8, 1992, 14:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Tumwater, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N60850Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920408009239A
- Case key
- 41650
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Probable cause
The (student) pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing. Factors contributing to the accident were excessive airspeed and the pilot's lack of total 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 pilot was on her first solo and had just completed 2 successful touch and go landings at the olympia airport (olm). On the third approach she was reportedly fast (80MPH) and the aircraft ballooned following touchdown. Upon the second touchdown the nose gear gave way and the aircraft slid to a stop on rwy 35. The pilot has accrued a total of 17 hours of flight time all of which was instructional and logged within the 30 days previous to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60850
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-70618
- Airframe hours
- 4,580
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tumwater Flight Service
- Registered owner
- Cool Air Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 3, 1992 · 9 hours before
- Airport
- OLM · Olympia, runway 35, 5,419 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17 total · 17 in this make and model · 17 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 34 °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.