Cessna 150H N6555S
20 March 2011 · Maury City, Tennessee, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 20 March 2011 at about 19:00 local time, a Cessna 150H registered N6555S was involved in an accident near Maury City, Tennessee, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 19:00
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Maury City, Tennessee, United States
- Coordinates
- 35.9019, -89.3917
- Aircraft
- Cessna 150H
- Registration
- N6555S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Halls → Halls
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA11LA203
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper glidepath during on off-airport landing.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
During a local flight at 500 feet above ground level and about 10 miles from the departure airport, the pilot reported hearing a "pop" sound from the rear of the airplane. Concerned about whether further flight was safe, the pilot elected to perform an off-airport precautionary landing. After reducing engine power, the pilot attempted to "slip" the airplane and noted that the left rudder pedal would not move and that he could not slip the airplane to the left. The airplane subsequently approached the field higher and faster than the pilot intended and overran the intended landing area. Before coming to rest, the nose landing gear collapsed forward, resulting in substantial damage to the firewall. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the nose landing gear steering linkage was pulled taut, which restricted movement of the left rudder pedal. The taut nose landing gear steering linkage was likely the result of the accident sequence. After disconnecting the steering linkage, the rudder operated normally in both directions with no other flight control anomalies noted.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Cessna 150 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Oct 2011 | Cessna 150L | Punta Gorda, Florida, United States | Johnson William H | No injuries | - |
| 20 Jul 2011 | Cessna 150M | Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States | PRO Air Enterprises Inc | No injuries | - |
| 23 Aug 2011 | Cessna 150G | Cavanaugh Bay, Idaho, United States | - | Serious injuries | - |
| 24 Apr 2011 | Cessna 150H | College Place, Washington, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 7 Oct 2011 | Cessna 150L | Vidalia, Louisiana, United States | Ellett Thomas S | No injuries | - |
| 5 Feb 2011 | Cessna 150L | Gonzales, Louisiana, United States | Michael Schaff | No injuries | - |
All 10,427 records for this type
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jun 2011 | Beechcraft A100 | Gray, Tennessee, United States | Dynamic Avlease Inc | No injuries | - |
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| 7 Oct 2011 | Piper PA-18-150 | Elizabethton, Tennessee, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 11 Dec 2011 | Shaw Douglas Wayne RANS S 7 | Somerville, Tennessee, United States | Miller IRA L | Fatal | 1 |
| 9 Oct 2011 | Aeronca 0-58A | Westmoreland, Tennessee, United States | Henderson Blake W | No injuries | - |