- Date
- August 8, 1988, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Napoleon, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9211UCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880808031509A
- Case key
- 14135
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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 airplane left the runway and struck a ditch during an attempted soft field takeoff. The student pilot lost directional control of the acft and, after striking a runway light on the left side of the runway, continued until he collided with the ditch and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9211U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078162
- Airframe hours
- 3,899
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Heyde Aviation
- Registered owner
- Heyde Aviation Center Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 21, 1988 · 31 hours before
- Airport
- OH17 · Henry County, runway 28, 4,500 × 65 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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16 total · 16 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.