- Date
- December 9, 1984, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hampshire, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7954ZCessna 150C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841209065599A
- Case key
- 12969
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Touchdown occurred nearly half-way down airstrip, which was wet with melting frost. Plt did not attempt a go-around, but relied on braking action for safe completion of landing roll. Braking action was nil. Acft overran through a barbed-wire fence and into a plowed field where contact with furrows caused it to tip onto the nose and right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7954Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 150C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15060054
- Airframe hours
- 2,189
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A42, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William J. Ream
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 20, 1984
- Departed
- WI10 · Wilmot, WI
- Destination
- 7IL6 · Hampshire, IL
- Airport
- 7IL6 · Esser, runway 30, 1,450 × 30 ft, grass/turf
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 192 total · 76 in this make and model · 130 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N7954Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.