- Date
- November 2, 1992, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Vernon, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8199SCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921102047729A
- Case key
- 18610
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane. A factor was the stall/mush.
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 was performing touch and go landings at the uncontrolled airport when the airplane started to porpoise after touchdown and aircraft control was lost. He attempted to abort the landing and recover from the bouncing by adding full power. The airplane was seen by eyewitnesses to leave the runway surface and drift left in a nose high, right bank attitude for approximately 200 yards and then the left horizontal stabilizer struck a butane tank and the airplane cartwheeled to impact the terrain. The FAA inspector did not report finding any mechanical problems with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8199S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15061799
- Airframe hours
- 4,300
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Latimer, Lawrence
- Registered owner
- Brantly Helo Ind USA Co Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 18, 1991 · 223 hours before
- Departed
- F05
- Airport
- F05 · Wilbarger Cty, runway 2, 5,100 × 100 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.