- Date
- March 22, 1989, 10:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sellersburg, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5228QCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890322004349A
- Case key
- 14330
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to control the airplane during the landing flare and touchdown. The student pilots lack of experience and gusty crosswinds are contributing factors to the accident.
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
During a second landing attempt following a go-around the student pilot allowed the airplane to drift off the left edge of the runway surface as he touched down. The airplane nosed over in the soft terrain. He aborted his first attempt when he encountered gusty wind conditions over the runway and close to the surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5228Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073128
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Haps Aerial Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- JVY · Clark County, runway 36, 5,500 × 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 22 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 15 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N5228Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.