- Date
- May 5, 1991, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cypress, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N60544Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910505014219A
- Case key
- 23329
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Probable cause
Failure of the PIC to maintain proper airspeed and the inadvertent stall experienced by the pilot rated passenger. A factor was the pic's failure to attain runway alignment.
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
While on short final the airplane was allowed to drift left of centerline by the pilot in command. At approximately 40 feet, the safety pilot in the right seat announced that he was assuming control of the airplane. The PIC relinquished control of the safety pilot. Full power was applied in an attempt to go-around. The airplane stalled and collided with the ground on the left side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60544
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070388
- Airframe hours
- 3,465
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wings Of Houston
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 10, 1991 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- 2XS3 · Cypress, TX
- Airport
- 2XS3 · May, runway 35, 3,400 × 30 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 175 in this make and model · 250 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 20 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH, 11 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.
Other investigations on N60544 · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.