- Date
- March 2, 1993, 09:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Aurora, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N704RSCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930302017099A
- Case key
- 15684
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command'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 solo student pilot landed on runway 18. During the landing roll the airplane exited the runway and the nose gear collapsed. The nearest weather reporting station, 27 miles to the northeast of the accident site, reported winds of 140 degrees at 13 knots, eight minutes after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704RS
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078819
- Airframe hours
- 2,546
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Owens, William L.
- Registered owner
- Owens, William L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 14, 1992 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- ASG · Springdale, AR
- Airport
- 2H2 · Aurora Memorial Municipal, runway 18, 3,002 × 49 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 56 total · 56 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SGF, 27 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 N704RS · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.