Cessna 150G N4655X
4 April 2010 · Winter Haven, Florida, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 4 April 2010 at about 20:00 local time, a Cessna 150G registered N4655X, operated by Tailwheels Etc Inc., was involved in an accident near Winter Haven, Florida, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 20:00
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Winter Haven, Florida, United States
- Nearest airport
- Winter Haven's Gilbert Airport (GIF)
- Coordinates
- 28.0628, -81.7533
- Aircraft
- Cessna 150G
- Registration
- N4655X
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Tailwheels Etc Inc.
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Winter Haven → Winter Haven
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA10CA218
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing in gusting winds.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The student pilot completed his first solo flight the day prior to the accident. On the day of the accident, the student pilot was completing another solo flight in the traffic pattern. During his third landing on runway 5, the airplane bounced once, then landed again and collapsed the nose landing gear. The airplane came to rest on the runway and sustained damage to the firewall. No mechanical malfunctions or failures were reported by the student pilot. The recorded wind at the airport, about the time of the accident, was from 040 degrees at 4 knots, gusting to 16 knots.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Cessna 150 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jul 2010 | Cessna 150M | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States | East Tennessee Pilots Club | No injuries | - |
| 7 Mar 2010 | Cessna 150H | New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 2 Sep 2010 | Cessna 150L | Boone, Iowa, United States | Drake Aerial Enterprises LLC DBA | Fatal | 1 |
| 4 Sep 2010 | Cessna 150H | DeLand, Florida, United States | - | Fatal | 2 |
| 1 Jan 2010 | Cessna 150G | Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States | Frattone Clifford T | No injuries | - |
| 21 Jun 2010 | Cessna 150G | Jasper, Tennessee, United States | - | No injuries | - |
All 10,427 records for this type
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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