- Date
- August 20, 1991, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Waller, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6102GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910820035629A
- Case key
- 23276
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot's failure to take remedial action during stall/spin training. Factors were the instructor's overconfidence in his personal ability and the student's apprehension of stalls.
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
An instructor pilot and his nine hour student pilot were on their first flight together to practice slow flight and stalls. According to persons close to the student pilot, he had delayed taking flying lessons for several years due to his apprehension for practicing any type of stalls. The instructor pilot had promised to cure the student of his fear of stalls. Two witnesses observed the airplane entering and recovering from two consecutive spins. The airplane was reported missing in the early evening after it failed to return from the training flight. Wreckage was found in an open pasture the next morning. The airplane impacted the ground in a slight nose down attitude, in a slight right turn, with no forward airspeed, resulting in heavy compression damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6102G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071602
- Airframe hours
- 3,935
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hoseph R. Mock, doing business as Wings Of Houston
- Registered owner
- Hoseph R. Mock
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 5, 1991 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- DWH · Houston, TX
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,575 total · 525 in this make and model · 1,377 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.