- Date
- September 11, 1992, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Marlette, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N50905Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920911036469A
- Case key
- 15547
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's (CFI) inadequate supervision of the dual student pilot and the dual student's inadvertent application of the brakes.
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 flight instructor was training the primary student in determining flare height. During a low pass down the runway, the airplane's main wheels touched the runway, several times, with the student inadvertently applying brakes. The instructor attempted to abort the inadvertent landing by applying full power, and reducing the flaps from 30 degrees to 10 degrees; however, the airplane did not clear trees 200 yards beyond the departure end of the 3,500 foot long runway. The airplane impacted the trees and descended into the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50905
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15069632
- Airframe hours
- 5,000
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Arnold, Max C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1991 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- 55G · Croswell, MI
- Airport
- 77G · Marlette, runway 1, 3,500 × 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
- 70
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 7,000 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 14 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FNT, 42 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.