- Date
- August 7, 1988, 19:29 local (23:29 UTC)
- Place
- Detroit, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5796GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880807030889A
- Case key
- 14134
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Probable cause
Hard landing made by the student pilot resulting in a nose gear failure due to overload forces and the aircraft flipping over on its back.
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 pilot with only 22 hours total time was practicing a landing which resulted in a hard landing and failure of the nose gear. The overload failure of the nosewheel allowed the yoke to dig into the asphalt runway resulting in the aircraft flipping over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5796G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 71296
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wright Way Aviation
- Registered owner
- Wrightway Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- DET · Detroit City, runway 33, 5,500 × 100 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22 total · 22 in this make and model · 22 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DET
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N5796G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.