- Date
- April 6, 1989, 12:03 local (19:03 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6395GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890406006509A
- Case key
- 40993
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Probable cause
The decision of a student pilot to continue to land the aircraft with a crosswind that exceeded his ability level.
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 was making multiple touch and go landings with a gusting crosswind from the right. The pilot lost control of the aircraft, striking the ground in a left wing down, nose right attitude. The aircraft came to rest to the left of the runway about 180 degrees from the runway heading. The plt did not submit an acc report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6395G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071895
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Washington State Com College, doing business as Aviators Club
- Registered owner
- Washington State Comm. College
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Airport
- BFI · Boeing Field, runway 13L, 10,000 × 200 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 55 total · 9 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °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 N6395G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.