- Date
- January 4, 1986, 14:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- West Fargo, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23148Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860104000589A
- Case key
- 16912
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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
According to the student plt, he was practicing touch and go landings, when the acft veered off the side of the rwy and contacted a snow bank. The plt indicated he had a total flt time of apx 23 hrs, including 1.5 hrs solo. This was his third solo flt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23148
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068754
- Airframe hours
- 3,758
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gary R. Weber
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 19, 1985 · 71 hours before
- Departed
- FAR · Fargo, ND
- Airport
- D54 · West Fargo Utility, runway 17, 3,830 × 147 ft, dirt
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 5 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FAR, 4 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.