- Date
- September 24, 1991, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bellaire, MI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N4501FCessna A150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910924042809A
- Case key
- 14920
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot's inadequate supervision which resulted in an inaverent stall and uncontrolled descent into terrain. A related factor is the insufficient altitude.
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 instructor and pre solo student pilot were on a local dual instructional flight. Witnesses reported the airplane was in a steep nose high attitude, then 'the front end dropped out and it spun down ward, twisting and spiralling...behind the trees.' The airplane impacted the ground in an 85 degree nose down attitude, with no evidence of rotation about the longititudinal axis. Both hand grips were broken off the left yoke, and the left hand grip was broken off the right yoke. There was no evidence of pre impact mechanical difficulty with the airframe or engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4501F
- Reported as
- Cessna A150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A1500414
- Airframe hours
- 2,738
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gerald A. Roude
- Registered owner
- Plane Fun, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic; Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 5, 1991 · 90 hours before
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
- 52
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,308 total · 2,260 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 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.