- Date
- June 19, 1996, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sanford, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N11532Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 4, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960619014479A
- Case key
- 38033
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Probable cause
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing, which resulted in a ground swerve and subsequent nose over.
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 pilot was performing touch-and-go landings on runway 9R. During a landing, the airplane was observed on short final drifting to the north of the runway. The airplane touched down, departed the left side of the runway into the grass, and nosed over. No preimpact mechanical problem was reported. The wind was reported to be from 040 degrees at 5 knots.
Factual narrative
On June 19, 1996, about 1330 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150L, N11532, registered to a private owner, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91, local, training flight, crashed in the vicinity of Sanford, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane was substantially damaged, and the student pilot was not injured.
The pilot was performing touch-and-go landings on runway 9R. On the accident landing, the flight was observed on short final drifting to the north of the runway. The flight touched down, departed the left side of the runway into the grass, and nosed over.
The pilot's father, and her flight instructor, stated to the NTSB that he asked his daughter if she could have applied the brakes unevenly when she touched down. She could not recall exactly what happened, but she told her dad "that it was possible." The reported winds at the time of the accident were from 040 degrees at 5.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11532
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15075494
- Airframe hours
- 4,210
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sun Jet Aviation
- Registered owner
- Douglas Oridel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1996 · 600 hours before
- Departed
- SFB
- Airport
- SFB · Sanford, runway 9R, 3,700 × 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.