- Date
- May 6, 1989, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yamhill, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6575GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890506012859A
- Case key
- 41007
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain proper airspeed on final approach. Contributing to the accident was lack of total experience.
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
Student pilot allowed acft to stall on final approach. The acft ran off the side of the rwy into a fence. The pax was also a student pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6575G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072075
- Airframe hours
- 4,868
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Linda J. Brelin
- Registered owner
- Linda J Brelin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 5, 1989 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- 559 · Estacada, OR
- Destination
- AST · Astoria, OR
- Airport
- OR05 · Flying M Ranch, runway 26, 2,130 × 40 ft, gravel
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 61 total · 29 in this make and model · 20 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.