# Accident 20100318029489A: Cessna 150F, Tillimook, OR, March 18, 2010

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 18, 2010, 11:30 local time
- Place: Tillimook, OR
- Airport: Tillimook Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Aircraft: N7854F, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7854F-2014-11-19) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 150F (registry code 2071814, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150f) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental 0-200 series (registry code 17020, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-200-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150F
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 0 total, 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100318029489A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

THE AIRCRAFT CLEARED THE NORTHERN AIRPORT PERIMETER FENCE AND LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY 13.  THE NOSE LANDING SHEARED OFF, THE NOSE DUG IT AND THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER.  THE AIRCRAFT HAD BEEN RIGHTED AND PUT IN THE OWNER'S T-HANGER BY THE TIME THE FAA IIC ARRIVED.  INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT SHOWED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO THE EMPENNAGE, AFT FUSELAGE, LEFT WING TIP, AND ENGINE COWLING AND PROPELLER.  THE VERTICAL STABILIZER AND RUDDER UPPER TIPS WERE CRUSHED AND BROKEN.  THE HORIZONTAL STABILIZERS AND ELEVATORS HAD PERMANENT DEFORMATION CORD WISE MID-SPAN, FROM BENDING LOADS IMPOSED WHEN THE VERTICAL FIN AND RUDDER CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE GROUND.  THE AFT FUSELAGE HAD DOWNWARD COMPRESSION FORCES INCLUDING A COMPRESSION INDUCED TEAR IN THE LOWER SKIN. THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE AFT FUSELAGE, JUST FORWARD OF THE HORIZONTAL STABILIZER HAD PULLED RIVETS AND SKIN SEPARATION.  THE LEFT WING TIP,  INBOARD TO THE OUTBOARD WING RIB HAD PERMANENT DEFORMATION FROM DOWNWARD COMPRESSION FORCES.  THE SPINNER WAS CRASHED AND PROPELLER HAD SLIGHT BENDING DAMAGE TO ONE BLADE.  THE NOSE BOWL WAS CRUSHED AND CRACKED AND THE ENTIRE ENGINE COWLING WAS SLIGHTLY PUSHED AFT. THE NOSE LANDING GEAR BROKE AWAY FROM THE MOUNT AT THE UPPER AND LOWER STRUT MOUNT RINGS.  THE MOUNT RINGS WERE STILL ATTACHED TO THE GEAR STRUT.  INSPECTION OF THE COCKPIT REVELED THAT THE PRIMER HANDLE WAS NOT STOWED AND EXTENDED APPROXIMATELY ¾ OF AND INCH.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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