- Date
- July 8, 1987, 19:31 local (Jul 9, 1987, 02:31 UTC)
- Place
- Cameron Park, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3811VCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870708032519A
- Case key
- 25631
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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 a pleasure flt, the non certificated plt landed the acft short of the rwy when he mistook a road for the rwy. The plt stated that the sun was in his eyes and by the time he realized that he was not landing on the rwy the acft was too low and slow to go around. The acft collided with a pole during the landing roll, ran into a ditch and nosed over. The plt had recently purchased the acft and had logged 150 hrs in this type of acft several years ago. The plts student plt certificate and medical had expired. There were no mechanical failures or malfunctions reported at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3811V
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076630
- Airframe hours
- 2,361
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aday, Jerry R.
- Registered owner
- Doyle, Michael
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1987 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- 005 · Davis, CA
- Destination
- 061 · Cameron Park, CA
- Airport
- 061 · Cameron Park
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 150 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAC, 29 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.