- Date
- May 18, 1987, 09:20 local (16:20 UTC)
- Place
- Apple Valley, CA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9220UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870518013999A
- Case key
- 25591
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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
The pilot lost control of the aircraft and entered an inadvertent spin during the initial climbout following a touch-and-go landing. The pilot reported a loss of power after climbing to 500 feet. Another pilot on the airport observed the aircraft in a very high angle of attack with the engine operating at full power when it nosed over and impacted the ground from a height of 50 to 100 feet above the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9220U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078170
- Airframe hours
- 2,854
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Medveczky, Bandi
- Registered owner
- Bandi B Medveczky
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 1987 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- L26 · Hesperia, CA
- Airport
- APV · Apple Valley, runway 36, 6,500 × 150 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 375 total · 240 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VCV, 10 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.