- Date
- September 21, 1991, 10:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Buckeye, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N63553Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910921042149A
- Case key
- 27364
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Probable cause
The passenger/certified flight instructor's poor judgement by interfering with the PIC and his failure to execute a timely go-around. Contributing to this accident was the cfi's misjudgment of altitude.
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
When the flt arrived at its destination airport, the passenger, a CFI, suggested to the PIC, a private pilot, that he practice a simulated engine out approach/landing. The PIC throttled back the engine upon entering the left downwind leg. When on final approach with full flaps extended, the PIC realized the acft was too high and began to slip the airplane. When nearing the threshold the acft was still too high and the pax (CFI) assumed the controls and entered a 360 degree turn. During the turn the CFI realized the airplane was too low and applied power to go around, but to no avail. The airplane struck the ground and cartwheeled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63553
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077391
- Airframe hours
- 4,402
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph B. Dulin
- Registered owner
- Joseph B. Dulin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 3, 1991 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- P19 · Chandler, AZ
- Airport
- BXK · Buckeye, runway 17, 4,300 × 75 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 275 total · 230 in this make and model · 221 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.