- Date
- October 30, 1992, 09:17 local (17:17 UTC)
- Place
- Troutdale, OR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66135Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921030044459A
- Case key
- 42956
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Improper use of flt controls by the pilot, resulting in inadvertent stall/spin.
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 pilot attempted to abort a landing in x-wind wx conditions when the acft bounced and began swerving off the runway. The acft maneuvered erratically with large oscillations in pitch and bank attitude, stalled, entered a spin and impacted the ground on the arpt ramp.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66135
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15075863
- Airframe hours
- 3,502
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gorge Wind Aviation
- Registered owner
- Fugman, Darrel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 21, 1992 · 32 hours before
- Airport
- TTD · Troutdale, runway 25, 5,400 × 150 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 313 total · 129 in this make and model · 236 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.