- Date
- June 13, 1982, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- St Louis, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N704MCCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 13, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820613021959A
- Case key
- 72688
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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 a local flight to practice touch and go landings, the aircrew elected to proceed to the creve coeur airport, where there was less traffic. The instructor pilot had recently moved to the St Louis area. Neither he nor his student had landed at the creve coeur airport before this flight. After landing on runway 34 with a crosswind, they elected to enter a traffic pattern for runway 07. On final approach, neither the instructor nor the student realized that the aircraft was aligned to a wheat field adjacent to the runway. The plane was landed in a soft, wet field with knee high wheat and nosed over. The instructor reported that the runway out line was difficult to discern. However, an FAA representative examined the runway and consider the painted tires along the runway sides and the reflectorized cylinders at the ends as adequate markings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704MC
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078711
- Airframe hours
- 2,174
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Midwest Air Service
- Registered owner
- Midwest Air Service
- Departed
- 3WE · St. Louis, MO
- Destination
- 3WE · St. Louis, MO
- Airport
- 1H0 · Creve Coeur, runway 7, 3,236 × 185 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,075 total · 460 in this make and model · 823 as pilot in command · 88 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.