- Date
- April 22, 1989, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Creve Couer, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N19220Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890422009519A
- Case key
- 34782
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of altitude and distance to the runway, and his failure to attain the proper touchdown point for landing. A factor related to the accident was: the soft/uneven terrain short of the runway.
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
While practicing takeoffs & landings, the student plt misjudged his touchdown point. The acft touched down in a plowed/furrowed field about 20 feet short of the rwy & bounced about 50 ft onto the rwy, where the nose gear collapsed & the propeller struck the rwy. The acft then slid to a stop on its nose.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N19220
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15074247
- Airframe hours
- 3,738
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skyling Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Skylink Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 15, 1989 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- 1HO
- Airport
- 1HO · Creve Cover, runway 16, 2,500 × 28 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 18 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUS, 15 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.