- Date
- August 14, 2005, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Durand, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6222TCessna 150E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20050814024539A
- Case key
- 62468
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Probable cause
The inadequate flare during landing by the pilot. A contributing factor was the lack of certification of 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 airplane received substantial damage during a hard landing and post accident fire. The airplane was last inspected in 2002. The pilot did not hold a pilot certificate and received his last airman medical certificate in 1997. The pilot flew a couple hours per year. The pilot did not keep a logbook record of his flight time, and he thought that he accumulated a total flight time of 200 hours.
Factual narrative
On August 14, 2005, at 1630 central daylight time, a Cessna 150E, owned and piloted by an uncertificated pilot, received substantial damage on impact with terrain and fire during a hard landing on runway 18 (2,790 feet by 50 feet, asphalt) at Durand Municipal Airport (WI25), Durand, Wisconsin. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was not operating on a flight plan. The pilot was uninjured. The local flight originated from WI25 at 1600.
The pilot stated that "thermal conditions cause nose wheel to take hard hit." The nose wheel then collapsed, the propeller struck the runway, and a fire ensued.
Federal Aviation Administration records indicate that the pilot did not hold a pilot certificate, and he received his last airman medical certificate on November 14, 1997. The airplane received its last annaul inspection on June 17, 2002. The pilot flew a couple of hours per year. He did not keep a logbook record of his flight time, and he thought that he accumulated a total flight time of 200 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6222T
- Reported as
- Cessna 150E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15060922
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Raymond S. Dettling
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- WI25 · Durand, WI
- Destination
- WI25
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
- 82
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.