N8374J

On August 9, 2019, about 1830 central daylight time, a Cessna 150G, N8374J, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Cordell, Oklahoma. The pilot was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight.

According to information obtained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector who responded to the accident, the pilot had just received his private pilot certificate for airplane single engine land earlier that day. The pilot performed a touch-and-go-landing to runway 22 at Cordell Municipal Airport (F36). A witness reported that the airplane touched down hard on the turf strip, and a spray of dirt was visible behind the airplane. The airplane bounced and went back into the air, changed to a nose low attitude, and impacted the ground nose first. The pilot did not recall the accident sequence when interviewed by the inspector.

A postaccident examination of the airplane by the FAA inspector did not find any mechanical anomalies which would have precluded normal operations. Substantial damage was found to the firewall, fuselage, empennage, and wings.