- Date
- October 8, 1990, 15:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Indian Head, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6439GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901008044349A
- Case key
- 11634
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain adequate aircraft control during the landing flare/touchdown. Contributing factors are his lack of total flight experience and his improper technique when raising flaps during an attempted go-around.
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 during his landing flare the right wing tip 'suddenly' lifted, and the aircraft drifted off the left side of the runway. He reported that he added right rudder and aileron, and full power to attempt a go-around. He stated that when he raised the flaps, he inadvertently raised them all at once. The aircraft stalled and fell to the ground right wing and nose wheel first, and then flipped over, inverted. The student pilot reported 60 hours of total flight experience, including 51 hours in the accident make and model aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6439G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071939
- Airframe hours
- 860
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Professional Flight Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 6, 1990 · 80 hours before
- Airport
- 2W5 · Maryland, runway 17, 3,000 × 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 60 total · 51 in this make and model · 19 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAD, 280 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.