- Date
- January 8, 1990, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N63414Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900108000279A
- Case key
- 5280
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. The snowbank was a related factor.
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 student plt was practicing takeoffs & landings on a rwy that was covered with ice & snow. After the 4th landing, he applied power to takeoff again. He said that after full power was applied, the acft began sliding sideways. Subsequently, it collided with a snowbank & was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63414
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077296
- Airframe hours
- 6,154
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aero Tech Flight Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 19, 1989 · 52 hours before
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill, runway 33, 2,665 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 68 total · 68 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 1 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 1 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 N63414 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.