- Date
- June 23, 1990, 12:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Rockledge, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N66453Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900623022039A
- Case key
- 32673
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Probable cause
The pilots failure to raise the flaps as required during the go-around and failure to place the carburetor heat in the cold position.
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 an attempted go-around, the student plt left the flaps in the full down position & the carburetor heat full out. A CFI who observed the flt stated the acft stalled during the attempted climb out & mushed into trees at the departure end of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66453
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076060
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airport
- X65 · Rockledge Airpark, runway 18, 2,000 × 50 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 19 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 41 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 30,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MLB, 12 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.