- Date
- June 18, 1993, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Birch Tree, MO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8476GCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930618023229A
- Case key
- 15738
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft 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
A solo student pilot became lost on a cross-country flight, and decided to land with fuel remaining. He initiated a downwind approach to an open field, overshot and started to go around. The airplane mushed into trees at the FAR end.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8476G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062576
- Airframe hours
- 3,450
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A42, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Airquest Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Airquest Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 23, 1992 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- 6M2 · Horseshoe Bend, AR
- Destination
- ASG · Springdale, AR
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 59
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 20 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.