- Date
- May 20, 1984, 15:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Sunray, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N22024Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840520017979A
- Case key
- 21339
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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
During initial climb, at an altitude of 8 to 10 ft AGL, the student plt reported experiencing 'turbulence like a down draft' & the acft settled back to the rwy. Believing that insufficient rwy remained to clear approaching power lines, the plt intentionally swerved the acft off the rwy. It entered a soft, plowed fld adjacent to the rwy & nosed over following collapse of the nose gear. The plt reported that the local wind speed was 2 KTS with gusts to 15 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22024
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068015
- Airframe hours
- 2,464
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Leon Stovall
- Registered owner
- Leon Stovall
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 4, 1983 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- Q43 · Sunray, TX
- Airport
- Q43 · Sunray Muni, runway 20, 4,100 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AMA, 50 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.