- Date
- October 2, 1988, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Payson, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8681SCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881002042849A
- Case key
- 26263
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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 aircraft collided with an obstacle during a go-around from the red creek private dirt strip. The plt reported that he had never landed at the 2000 ft, dirt strip and had no other short or soft field takeoff/landing practice beyond his instruction at an 8000 ft paved runway and practice takeoffs and landings at an abandoned dirt strip in the desert four days prior to the planned flight. The plt got too low on his aprch. He compensated for his low aprch by increasing his angle of attack. When the plt realized the aircraft attitude was too high and his airspeed too low, he initiated a go-around. He added full power, made a shallow bank to the left, and retracted 20 degrees of flaps. The a/c lost the remaining alt and collided with a steel fence post. The a/c nosed over about 30 ft to the left of the landing strip and about 500 ft past the threshold.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8681S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15061981
- Airframe hours
- 41,214
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Flying Tens Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 20, 1988 · 996 hours before
- Departed
- GYR · Goodyear, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Red Creek Private, runway 24, 2,000 × 50 ft, dirt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 94 total · 92 in this make and model · 58 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
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 N8681S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.