- Date
- August 24, 1994, 07:55 local (14:55 UTC)
- Place
- Mcminnville, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4016UCessna 150E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940824027159A
- Case key
- 42006
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control, and his inadequate remedial action. Factors include soft terrain in the vicinity of the runway.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During the landing roll, the solo student pilot failed to maintain directional control of the aircraft. As the aircraft headed for the edge of the runway, the student pilot attempted remedial action, but was unable to keep the aircraft from running off the side of the runway and nosing over in soft terrain.
Factual narrative
On August 24, 1994, approximately 0755 Pacific daylight time (PDT), a Cessna 150, N4016U, ran off the runway and nosed over at McMinnville Airport, McMinnville, Oregon. The student pilot, who was the sole occupant, was not injured, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The solo instructional flight, which departed the same location about 55 minutes earlier, was operating in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident. No flight plan had been filed, and there was no report of an ELT activation.
According to the FAA inspector who responded to the accident, the student pilot lost control of the aircraft during the roll-out portion of a touch-and-go landing. As the aircraft headed off the runway, the student pilot attempted remedial action, but was unable to keep the aircraft from running off the runway and nosing over in soft terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4016U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15061416
- Airframe hours
- 4,096
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lenhardt, James L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Limited (Special); Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 3, 1993 · 19 hours before
- Airport
- MMV · Mcminnville Airport, runway 22, 5,419 × 150 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12 total · 12 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.