- Date
- June 12, 1984, 10:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Reno, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N21939Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840612023629A
- Case key
- 39932
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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
As the student plt was flaring to land, the acft ballooned & subsequently entered a porpoise. He attempted to make a go-around, but the acft struck the ground when it lost altitude after the student retracted the flaps.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21939
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15074554
- Airframe hours
- 6,293
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Karl D. Whitehead
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 29, 1983
- Departed
- 4SD
- Destination
- RNO
- Airport
- RNO · Cannon International, runway 16, 9,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 37 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RNO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.