- Date
- February 25, 1993, 18:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Canton, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9297UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930225003659A
- Case key
- 15672
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control.
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 reported the airplane suddenly veered left during the landing roll, continued off the runway and struck a snow bank. He believes the loss of control was caused by the fracture of the steering arm rod end bolt. A metallurgical examination of the fractured rod end disclosed the fracture was caused by an overload in tension, and that there was no preexisting anomaly or fatigue evident in the rod end. Excess tension on the rod end can result if the nosewheel is forced beyond the limits of its normal travel. FAA inspectors at the accident site observed what they described as nosewheel scrub marks on the runway from the accident airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9297U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078247
- Airframe hours
- 4,281
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Emerald Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Emerald Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 9, 1993 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- 1D2 · Mettetal-Canton, runway 18, 2,550 × 50 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 21 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 90° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 18 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YIP, 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 N9297U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.