- Date
- July 9, 1982, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Alton, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N61130Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 69753
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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 and instructor pilot (ip) were departing on an instructional flight. Immediately after takeoff, the ip retarded the throttle to simulate an engine failure. The student lowered the nose to maintain airspeed, then prematurely raised it again. The ip took corrective action, but the plane touched down in a high rate of descent. Just before touching down, the ip raised the nose to absorb the shock on the main gear. However, the tail also contacted the surface and was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61130
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070823
- Airframe hours
- 2,704
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Piasa Wings, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Max Welch
- Departed
- ALN · Alton, IL
- Destination
- ALN · Alton, IL
- Airport
- ALN · Civic Memorial, runway 11, 6,500 × 0 ft, concrete
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
- 22
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,640 total · 30 in this make and model · 1,535 as pilot in command · 220 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 167 °F