- Date
- April 16, 1990, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lawrenceville, IL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N50671Bellanca 8KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900416009049A
- Case key
- 14497
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The student pilot failure to maintain flying speed. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor in that the instructor allowed the student to let the airspeeed dissipate below stall speed.
Analysis
During an aerial application instructional flight, the commercial rated student pilot performed a turn to reverse direction following a swath run and stalled the aircraft at an altitude of 200 ft AGL. A full recovery from the stall could not be made due to the low altitude. The aircraft settled into a plowed field.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50671
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 600-80
- Airframe hours
- 1,765
- Engine
- Lycoming AE10-320-E1B, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Vincennes University, doing business as Vincennes University Aviation
- Registered owner
- Board Of Trustees
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 11, 1990 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- LWV · Lawrenceville, IL
- Destination
- LWV
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
- 28
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 3,325 total · 115 in this make and model · 3,200 as pilot in command · 110 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HUF, 46 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.