- Date
- March 26, 2021, 08:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Marana, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1390QCessna 150L
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 102833
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s improper flare which resulted in a bounced, hard landing and loss of control in a gusting crosswind.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The solo student pilot reported that, he was landing the airplane with a gusting right crosswind. Upon landing, the airplane bounced and landed hard. The nose wheel and propeller impacted the ground. The engine truss was substantially damaged. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccidentt mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1390Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072690
- Built
- 1971
- Airframe hours
- 5,294.2
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Yang Feng
- Registered owner
- Yang Feng
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 1, 2020 · 52 hours before
- Departed
- MZJ · Marana, AZ
- Destination
- KAVQ · Marana, AZ
- Airport
- MZJ · Pinal Airpark, runway 12, 6,849 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 62 total · 62 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 26.6 in the last 90 days · 9.7 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 9 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- MZJ
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 1, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 25.6 MB in all.