- Date
- May 13, 2024, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bonners Ferry, ID · 48.7259722,-116.2951667
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3505LCessna 150F
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20240513005949A
- Case key
- 194257
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 maintain control of the airplane during landing in gusting wind conditions.
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 student pilot reported that during the landing flare, the airplane encountered a gust of wind and landed hard. Subsequently, the right wing impacted the ground, and the airplane exited the right side runway before it came rest upright on the adjacent grass. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the student pilot was landing on runway 20 with wind from 180° at 6 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3505L
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062305
- Built
- 1965
- Airframe hours
- 6,180.4
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pilot Training Northwest LLC
- Registered owner
- Pilot Training Northwest LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 24, 2024 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- KSZT · Sand Point, ID
- Destination
- 65S · Bonners Ferry, ID
- Airport
- 65S · Boundary County, runway 20, 4,002 × 75 ft
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Handheld GPS
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
- 30
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 60 total · 30 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 32 °F
- METAR
- 65S 132015Z AUTO 19008G20KT 140V230 10SM BKN090 BKN110 22/04 A2982 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SE AND NW=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 19, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.