- Date
- August 20, 1990, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Norfolk, MA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18147Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900820034319A
- Case key
- 36720
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain airspeed during an aborted landing resulting in an inadvertent stall and descent into trees.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The private pilot was in the traffic pattern. On final to runway 18, with 30 degrees of flaps, the airplane drifted left of centerline and the pilot executed a go around. He said he added full power, and raised the flaps to 20 degrees. He continued a left drift toward trees in a nose high, low airspeed condition. The pilot increased the pitch and added 10 degrees of flaps to clear the trees. The airplane stalled and struck the trees in a nose down attitude. The FAA reported there are trees on both sides of the runway and the winds as 090 degrees at 10 KTS, gusts to 20 KTS, variable to 060 degrees at 14 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18147
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073820
- Airframe hours
- 2,688
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviation East
- Registered owner
- Paul C Smiegal
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 9, 1990 · 66 hours before
- Destination
- MA07
- Airport
- MA07 · Norfolk, runway 18, 2,700 × 40 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 91 total · 4 in this make and model · 39 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N18147 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.