- Date
- January 31, 1988, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Titusville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9260UCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880131002359A
- Case key
- 32130
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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
Student pilot lost directional control while landing with right quartering wind. The acft departed the left side of the runway and the nose gear bogged down in sand. The nose gear then failed aft and the acft came to rest on the nose and left wing tip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9260U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078210
- Airframe hours
- 3,913
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- South Air Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Joseph V. Fera
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 3, 1987 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- ISM · Kissimmee, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- TIX · Titusville, runway 9, 5,001 × 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 39 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIX
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.