- Date
- January 19, 1990, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sullivan, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N50292Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900119000839A
- Case key
- 14621
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind gust and lack of total experience.
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 who was attempting to takeoff with a strong crosswind elected to abort. As she relaxed aileron correction the airplane departed the runway, entered a neighboring corn field, and nosed over inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50292
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15069201
- Airframe hours
- 2,241
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Grey Eagle Flight Training
- Registered owner
- Whitehead Energies Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 4, 1989 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- SIV
- Airport
- SIV · Sullivan County, runway 18, 3,560 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 30 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 10 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HUF, 21 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.