Primary finding
Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare/touchdown resulting in a hard/bounced landing, and subsequent nose over. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Investigator assessment
Analysis narrative
A witness observed the student pilot make a hard landing, bounce into the air, land hard again, collapse the nose gear, and nose over on the runway.
Source record
Factual narrative
On June 7, 1995, about 1115 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150G, N3888J, registered to a private individual, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, experienced a hard landing at Archer Flying Ten Airport, Archer, Florida, and crashed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot was not injured. The flight originated from Archer Flying Ten Airport, about 15 minutes before the accident. A flight instructor who observed the accident, stated the student pilot was conducting a touch-and-go landing at the time of the accident. He observed the airplane land hard, bounced into the air, landed hard again, collapse the nose gear, and nose over on the runway. -