- Date
- July 25, 2006, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Palatka, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8896GCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 26, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA Orlando FSDO
- FAA report
- 20060725015019A
- Case key
- 64237
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed to preclude a stall during the landing flare/touchdown, which resulted in a hard landing, a collapsed nose gear assembly, and a nose over. A factor associated with the accident was an inadvertent stall.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The commercial certificated pilot was landing a wheel-equipped airplane on an asphalt road near a rural ranch during a Title 14, CFR part 91 business flight. During the landing flare, the airplane stalled and the nose wheel hit the roadway, collapsing the nose landing gear. The airplane then veered off the roadway and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On July 25, 2006, about 1030 eastern daylight time, a wheel-equipped Cessna 150F airplane, N8896G, sustained substantial damage during the landing flare/touchdown on a roadway, about 7 miles south-southwest of Palatka, Florida. The airplane was being operated by the pilot as a visual flight rules (VFR) local area business flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The commercial certificated pilot, the sole occupant, received minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The flight originated from the pilot's personal airstrip in Satsuma, Florida, about 1020, and no flight plan was filed.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC), on July 27, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector from the Orlando Flight Standards District Office (FSDO), Orlando, Florida, reported that the pilot was landing on an asphalt road, near the Rodeheaven Boy's Ranch, Palatka. The inspector said the airplane stalled during the landing flare, hit the roadway with the nose wheel, and collapsed the nose landing gear. The airplane then veered off the roadway and nosed over. The inspector indicated the pilot holds an FAA commercial pilot certificate, a flight instructor certificate, and an airframe and powerplant certificate, and was flying to the ranch to work on another airplane.
The pilot did not submit a Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report, (NTSB Form 6120.1/2) to any NTSB office.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8896G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062996
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald R. Brenner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Satsuma, FL
- Destination
- Palatka, FL
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KSGJ, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8896G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.