- Date
- November 25, 1990, 13:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Clifton, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N23467Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901125051779A
- Case key
- 18058
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Probable cause
Inadvertent stall. Factors were: tailwind, wrong runway selected, and failure to raise flaps.
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 pilot had been flying on a solo cross-country flight when he became lost and landed at the nearest airport to find out where he was. Witnesses stated that the pilot did not refuel and went out to his aircraft in a hurry. The aircraft was observed taking off downwind with full flaps. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft was observed making a steep left bank and then the nose suddenly dropped. The aircraft impacted the ground in a steep nose low attitude and came to rest upside down.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23467
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068968
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Acme Aviation
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- 7F7
- Destination
- SEP · Stephenville, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 7F7 · Clifton Muni, runway 32, 3,000 × 50 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 47 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 8 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.