- Date
- September 6, 1990, 16:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- Geneva, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N61133Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900906038769A
- Case key
- 32697
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Probable cause
The pilots failure to retract the flaps to the takeoff setting during a touch-and-go landing.
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 plt stated that while on final apch for a full stop landing, the flt encountered turbulence. An uneventful landing occurred. The flt departed & reentered the pattern for a touch-&-go landing. The acft again encountered turbulence while on short final then entered an uncommanded descent. He added power to go- around & the flaps were left in the 20-25 deg position. The acft began to climb out but collided with trees at the departure end of the rwy. He further stated that there was no eng failure or malfunction. Witnesses reported that they observed the acft land, rotate about 3/4 down the 1,800 ft grass strip, & began to climb out with full flaps lowered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61133
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070826
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Titusville Aviation, Inc.
- Airport
- NONE · Southerland, runway 9, 1,800 × 400 ft, grass/turf
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,229 total · 36 in this make and model · 957 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- SFB, 8 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.