- Date
- June 25, 1999, 12:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Scott, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2263JCessna 150G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 18, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19990625007699A
- Case key
- 46673
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. A factor to the accident was the soft terrain condition.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
On landing rollout the airplane veered to the left side of the runway. The pilot reported that the airplane departed the runway surface, the tires sunk into soft turf on the side of the runway, and the airplane nosed over coming to rest in an inverted position. Inspection of the runway surface revealed a single tire skid mark that initiated approximately 240 feet from the runway threshold, 10 feet left of the runway centerline, and followed a left curved path terminating approximately 465 feet from the runway threshold, 20 feet left of the runway edge. The tire skid mark was approximated 225 feet long. Inspection of the wreckage revealed no mechanical anomalies with the aircraft's control and the brake systems. Both main landing gear wheels were free moving and the brake system was exercised and operated without any anomalous behavior.
Factual narrative
On June 25, 1999, at 1205 central daylight time, a Cessna 150G, N2263J, owned and piloted by a private pilot, sustained substantial damage after a loss of control and subsequent nose over during a landing on Runway 17 (4,400 feet by 75 feet, dry/asphalt) at the Fort Scott Municipal Airport, Fort Scott, Kansas. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The personal flight was operating under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 and was not on a flight plan. The pilot and one passenger reported no injuries. The flight departed Butler Memorial Airport, Butler, Missouri, at 1130.
According to the pilot's written statement, on landing rollout the airplane veered to the left side of the runway. The pilot reported that the airplane departed the runway surface, the tires sunk into soft turf on the side of the runway, and the airplane nosed over coming to rest in an inverted position.
Inspection of the runway surface revealed a single tire skid mark that initiated approximately 240 feet from the runway threshold, 10 feet left of the runway centerline, and followed a left curved path terminating approximately 465 feet from the runway threshold, 20 feet left of the runway edge. The tire skid mark was approximated 225 feet long.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspection of the wreckage revealed no mechanical anomalies with the aircraft's control and the brake systems. Both main landing gear wheels were free moving and the brake system was exercised and operated without any anomalous behavior.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2263J
- Reported as
- Cessna 150G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-65463
- Airframe hours
- 3,518
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edwin Harry Shoafstall
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 17, 1999 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- BUM · Butler, MO
- Destination
- FSK
- Airport
- FSK · Fort Scott Municipal Arpt, runway 17, 4,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 655 total · 25 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CNU, 35 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N2263J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.