- Date
- December 1, 1991, 17:42 local (21:42 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N704YPCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19911201053779A
- Case key
- 5675
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The certified flight instructor's (CFI) delay in initiating the go around. Contributing to the accident was the snow berm and dark night light condition.
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
After crossing the runway threshold, while performing a simulated emergency landing, the dual student stalled the airplane. The airplane existed the left side of the runway and crashed into a snowbank. The flight instructor stated he attempted a go-around just before the plane struck the snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704YP
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078981
- Airframe hours
- 10,085
- Engine
- Lycoming O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aerotech Flight Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Aerotech Flight Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 6, 1991 · 83 hours before
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill, runway 24, 4,001 × 100 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 710 total · 334 in this make and model · 662 as pilot in command · 216 in the last 90 days · 39 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 240° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI, 5 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.