- Date
- June 22, 1993, 15:25 local (20:25 UTC)
- Place
- Smyrna, TN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N63255Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930622019949A
- Case key
- 3228
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Probable cause
The improper flare and the improper go around procedures used by the pilot
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 pilot stated that she made a hard landing and the aircraft bounced back into the air. She then attempted a go around, but instead of raising the flaps to takeoff, she retracted the flaps to full up. She said the aircraft then stalled and the aircraft impacted the terrain with the left wing
Factual narrative
On June 22, 1993, at about 1525 central daylight time, a Cessna 150, N63255 was substantially damaged following a collision with terrain during a landing attempt at Smyrna, Tennessee. The student pilot received serious injuries in the accident. The aircraft was owned and being operated under 14 CFR Part 91 by Mathews Air, Incorporated of Franklin, Tennessee. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan had been filed for the local instructional flight. The flight departed Smyrna, Tennessee at about 1500.
According to witnesses, the student pilot was practicing touch and go landings on runway 19. During the landing, the aircraft appeared to land hard and bounced back into the air. The aircraft then swerved off the runway to the left, and the left wing contacted the terrain.
The pilot stated that she landed hard and bounced the aircraft. She then attempted a go around, and accidentally raised the flaps to the full up position. She then lost control of the aircraft and impacted the terrain with the left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63255
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077206
- Airframe hours
- 6,425
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mathews Air Inc.
- Registered owner
- Mathews Air Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 21, 1993
- Departed
- MQY
- Destination
- MQY
- Airport
- MQY · Smyrna, runway 19, 5,546 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 19 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MQY, 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.