- Date
- September 6, 1990, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Clutier, IA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3016XCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900906038539A
- Case key
- 14770
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to compensate for wind conditions.
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 pilot was attempting to land with a 90 degree crosswind of 11 knots gusting to 20 knots. He had executed a go-around on two previous approaches to runway 31, and was attempting his first approach to runway 13. As he got the right wheel on the ground, a gust lifted the right wing. The pilot applied power to go around, and the wind blew the aircraft to the left into power lines which paralleled the side of the runway. After striking the power lines the aircraft crashed into an open field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3016X
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-64416
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard E. Merkel, doing business as Merkel Aviation
- Departed
- C77 · Belvidere, IL
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 13, 2,700 × 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,527 total · 225 in this make and model · 5,447 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 11 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CID, 30 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.