- Date
- May 30, 1985, 20:45 local (May 31, 1985, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Merrill, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66069Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850530021199A
- Case key
- 13081
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 plt was performing touch-and-go's when on the landing roll she allowed the acft to drift off the rwy into soft terrain. The acft nosed over. The plt stated that she was looking inside to raise the flaps.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66069
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15075812
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- North Winds Aviation
- Registered owner
- Orin Of Merrill, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 26, 1984 · 98 hours before
- Airport
- RRL · Merrill, runway 25, 4,000 × 75 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 36 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 130° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AVW, 24 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.