- Date
- July 22, 1985, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mt Pleasant, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6350KCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850722033159A
- Case key
- 13158
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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 plt was on a solo x-country flt between maple grove arpt & houghton lake arpt. During the flt, the plt requested radar assistance to locate houghton lake. Due to her solo student status & the close proximity of Mt Pleasant arpt, she was advised to land there. While on a short final approach to rwy 27 at Mt Pleasant, she pulled the mixture knob by mistake & starved the eng of fuel. This resulted in a forced landing in a field aprx 200 ft short of the paved surface of the rwy. The terrain at that point was rough enough to cause the plane to nose over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6350K
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077659
- Airframe hours
- 2,150
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Earl Cl Peckens
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 18, 1985 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- 65G · Fowlerville, MI
- Airport
- MOP · Mt Pleasant Muni, runway 27, 3,900 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 49 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.