N3023J

On Wednesday, June 30, 1993, at 1130 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150E, N3023J, owned and operated by Oxford Aviation, Inc., of Oxford, Maine, made a hard landing at Oxford County Regional Airport, Oxford. The airplane received substantial damage and the pilot received minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed for the flight operating under 14 CFR 91.

The student pilot had just completed one hour of dual instruction, was on his first supervised solo, and coming in for his first landing when the accident occurred. In the NTSB Accident Report, the student pilot stated:

...flaps were 20 degrees. I lined up well and the approach appeared good. As I came over the numbers I began my flare and the next thing I knew there was a heavy sink and I hit the runway hard. At the time of the impact the throttle was all the way out and I was holding onto it. On impact I bent the throttle downward making it useless. Next I felt the plane balloon upward and nose high. Then immediately there was another hard impact, quickly followed by a third. I could see I was bouncing to the left and just off the side of the runway and the third bounce impacted a runway light. I then applied right rudder and right aileron and managed to get the plane back to the center of the runway and rolled out...I feel I flared too soon and nose high....