- Date
- April 8, 1992, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ione, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5294QCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920408009219A
- Case key
- 41646
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Probable cause
An inadvertent stall as a result of the pilot's failure to raise the flaps during a go-around.
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
Following an unsuccessful approach during which the flaps were fully extended the student pilot initiated a go-around maneuver by applying 'full power' and 'pull(ing) the nose up.' She reported hearing the stall warning and stated that she 'tried to tip the nose over to get more lift' during which time the aircraft collided with trees and then terrain. The flaps were found in the fully extended position at the accident site.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5294Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073194
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Anderson, Christine
- Registered owner
- Anderson, Christine
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 2, 2000 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- GEG · Spokane, WA
- Airport
- ION · Ione Municipal, runway 33, 4,200 × 45 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
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 20 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GEG, 70 nm away
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 N5294Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.