- Date
- March 26, 1990, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hyannis, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6406GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900326005819A
- Case key
- 34950
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve and a subsequent nose over. Factors related to the accident were: the pilot's lack of experience in this aircraft, and the soft terrain.
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 had recently purchased the Cessna 150, which had been converted to a tail wheel configuration and a 160 HP powerplant. After a x-country flt, he lost directional control, while landing. Subsequently the acft veered off the runway, encountered soft terrain & flipped inverted. The pvt pilot had a total time of about 9 hours in this type of acft, which included about 4 hours of cross country time.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6406G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071906
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B3B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- White, Thomas L
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- BBW · Broken Bow, NE
- Destination
- 1V2
- Airport
- 1V2 · Grant Co, runway 17, 2,865 × 30 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 84 total · 9 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MHN, 40 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.