- Date
- September 2, 1989, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Riverside, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6289KCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890902033499A
- Case key
- 26493
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. Factors related to the accident were: the student's lack of recent experience and improper training by her flight instructor.
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 completing her first landing on her first solo flight. She said that the airplane began to veer to the right at a slow speed soon after touchdown. She was unable to maintain directional control, and the airplane went off the right side of the runway and nosed over. The pilot also said she may have been unconsciously pushing on the right rudder or brake during the landing roll. The student had only 1.3 hours of flight time in the previous 30 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6289K
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077627
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Parflite Inc.
- Airport
- RAL · Riverside Muni, runway 27, 5,400 × 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 16 total · 16 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °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.