- Date
- August 3, 1991, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Jonesboro, GA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N60077Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910803031429A
- Case key
- 8334
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper in-flight decision when he landed downwind, and beyond the proper touchdown point. Additionally, he failed to attain a safe climb speed, which resulted in a stall/spin. A factor was the high density altitude.
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 pilot, an ATP, had flown the airplane from the same airport previously. The weather was hot & sticky with the density altitude about 2500 feet. The runway has an up slope of 2.2 degrees. After takeoff downhill, the pilot returned for a touch & go landing, uphill & downwind. FBO personnel saw the airplane pass over the departure end of the runway at about the height of the top of the windsock pole. Another witness observed that the flaps were extended & watched as the aircraft flew over a road in a nose high attitude. The wing touched a tree, the aircraft stalled off on the left wing, & disappeared behind the trees. No preimpact malfunctions were discovered with the engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60077
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070058
- Airframe hours
- 4,246
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Scheider, Kurt B.
- Registered owner
- Scheider, Kurt B.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1991 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- 9A7 · South Expressway, runway 6, 2,980 × 30 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,081 total · 100 in this make and model · 1,514 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ATL, 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.