- Date
- May 2, 1991, 16:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Wales, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5829LCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910502013989A
- Case key
- 32860
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Probable cause
Failure of airport personnel to perform airport maintenance which resulted in inaccurate wind information due to a deteriorated windsock, and failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control during the landing roll with a tail wind. Also, inadvertent stall/mush by the pilot. Contributing to the accident was the lack of total experience of the student pilot and his attempt to go-around after the loss of control during the landing roll.
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 the last leg of a long cross-country flt, the student plt elected to divert to a nearby arpt to perform several touch-&-go landings. He transmitted on the UNICOM frequency for an arpt advisory but received no reply. He flew over the arpt at 1,500 ft to observe the windsock which indicated that the wind was favoring rwy 24. He entered the traffic pattern to land & stated that the acft floated during the flare. After touchdown the acft veered to the rt & the plt applied power to go-around. The acft then veered to the lt, touched down with the longitudinal axis of the acft perpendicular to the rwy centerline, during which the nose landing gear separated from the acft. The acft then came to rest. Postaccident exam of the arpt by an FAA inspector revealed that the windsock was in a total state of disrepair. It was later learned that the plt landed with an aprx 8 kt wind at 080 degrees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5829L
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-73184
- Airframe hours
- 6,509
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Precision Flight Services, Inc
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 15, 1991 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- MLB · Melbourne, FL
- Destination
- GIF · Winter Haven, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- X07 · Lake Wales Municipal, runway 24, 4,000 × 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 37 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.