- Date
- June 29, 2025, 09:15 local (13:15 UTC)
- Place
- Pelzer, SC
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N150TPCessna 150
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250629008019A
- Case key
- 200445
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain proper airspeed while landing on a short, down-sloping turf runway, which resulted in a noseover.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he was landing on the private turf runway for the first time. The airplane was on stabilized approach to the 2,400-ft-long but was “a little fast.” The pilot fully extended the airplane’s flaps and touched down about one-third down the runway. About halfway down the runway, the grade steepened downward. The pilot elected not to perform a go-around due to powerlines and trees at the end of the runway. He attempted to stop the airplane on the remaining runway with braking, but when he realized that the airplane would likely overrun the runway, he “made the decision to flip the plane to arrest the forward motion.” The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted on the runway resulting in substantial damage to the empennage and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N150TP
- Reported as
- Cessna 150 (D)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15060535
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 4,636
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 27, 2025 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- LQK · Pickens, SC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- SC82 · Oakhill Airpark, runway 28, 2,400 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Handheld GPS, ADS-B
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
- 50
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 13, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 157 total · 29 in this make and model · 97 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- GYH, 9 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KGYH 291247Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 26/21 A3011=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 14, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.