- Date
- August 31, 1989, 20:00 local (Sep 1, 1989, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Delta, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6372KCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890831033509A
- Case key
- 17773
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control which resulted in a ground swerve. Soft terrain beside the runway was a related factor.
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 plt was making a local supervised solo training flight. The CFI stated that the student had made one touch-&-go landing without incident. After a second touch-&-go, the student added power to take off. The plane then swerved left, departed the rwy & nosed over. The student said the nose wheel entered soft sand & collapsed, then the airplane nosed over & came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6372K
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077672
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Steve Lester, doing business as Arrowhead Aviation
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- DLT
- Destination
- DLT
- Airport
- DLT · Delta, runway 12, 5,935 × 85 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
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 14 in this make and model · 14 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N6372K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.