- Date
- August 5, 1991, 17:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Moraine, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N17210Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910805036889A
- Case key
- 36983
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain airspeed during a go-around, resulting in an inadvertent stall and in flight collision with 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 student pilot encountered an updraft on final approach. He said, 'in an attempt to do a missed approach, I increased throttle....the aircraft veered right, then...left and went nose down into the grass.' The pilot had a total flight time of 40.6 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17210
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073666
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Moraine Aero Service
- Registered owner
- Unk/Na
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- I73 · Moraine Airpark, runway 26, 3,500 × 65 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.