- Date
- January 25, 1992, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Haven, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6225GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920125001019A
- Case key
- 15385
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Probable cause
Directional control was not maintained by the dual student and remedial action was delayed by the CFI. A factor related to the accident was the icy runway 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
While practicing soft field takeoffs, directional control was lost by the student pilot during a takeoff ground run. The CFI was unable to correct the situation and the acft slid into a snowbank and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6225G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071725
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Girard Enterprises, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- 57D · New Haven, runway 9, 2,500 × 30 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 780 total · 200 in this make and model · 500 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft broken
- Observed at
- MTC, 8 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.
Other investigations on N6225G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.