- Date
- January 23, 1993, 13:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N714RGCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930123000769A
- Case key
- 33218
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Probable cause
Poor in-flight planning decision by the student pilot. Contributing to the accident was his apprehension and lack of total experience in the type of operation.
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
This was the student pilot's first solo flight to a tower controlled airport and also his first flight to this airport. The pilot contacted the tower and was cleared to land but he did not visually identify the runway. The flight was then cleared to land on another runway but the flight was too close to line up for landing. The student plt elected to land on the grass adjacent to the runway and during the landing roll, the airplane collided with a concrete object. The acft nosed over causing substantial damage to the firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714RG
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15079370
- Airframe hours
- 5,433
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Brackston, Trevor
- Registered owner
- Brackston, Trevor
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 19, 1992 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- BKV · Brooksville, FL
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- GNV · Gainesville Regional
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 26 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 1 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.