- Date
- August 28, 1990, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Reeds Spring, MO
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2973SCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14761
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Probable cause
A delayed go-around.
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
While attempting to land, on a 2200 foot sod strip, in a full flap configuration, the pilot elected to attempt a go-around. He reduced his flap setting by 10 degrees, which left 30 degrees of flap, but was unable to establish a positive rate of climb, and stalled. The acft came to rest in some trees, about 20 feet AGL. After the plt and pax egressed, the acft caught fire and was destroyed. The air temperature at the time was near 100 degrees and the landing was being attempted in about a 70 degree, 10 knot crosswind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2973S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15066873
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Smiley, Charles, D.
- Registered owner
- Smiley, Charles D
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Departed
- SGF · Springfield, MO
- Airport
- 8M01 · Emerson, runway 18, 2,200 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,750 total · 375 in this make and model · 3,578 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 55 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SGF, 30 nm away