- Date
- January 16, 1993, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N45563Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930116001529A
- Case key
- 15652
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed. The poorly planned approach was a factor.
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 student pilot turned his airplane onto final approach and extended full flaps. The pilot stated that as the flaps were extending he did not apply sufficient forward pressure to counter the affect of additional lift and tail downwash momentarily generated by the flap extension. The pilot stated he overshot the runway's extended centerline. He stated he executed a series of medium to steep banked turns to get the airplane onto the final approach course centerline. During the maneuvering the airplane stalled about 100 feet above the ground. While recovering from the stall he pitched the airplane down and then applied back pressure because he was too close to the ground. The airplane collided with the ground shortly thereafter.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45563
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076972
- Airframe hours
- 6,848
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Haps Arial Enterprises, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Haps Arial Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 23, 1992 · 43 hours before
- Airport
- JVY · Clark County, runway 36, 5,500 × 100 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 13 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LOU, 9 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.