Cessna 152 N4649L

Summary

On 6 September 2011 at about 17:05 local time, a Cessna 152 registered N4649L, operated by Accelerated 360, was involved in an accident near Redlands, California, 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.

Date

6 September 2011 at 17:05

Classification

Accident

Location

Redlands, California, United States

Nearest airport

Redlands Municipal Airport (REI)

Coordinates

34.0850, -117.1461

Aircraft

Cessna 152

Registration

N4649L

Category

Airplane

Year built

1980

Engines

1

Operator

Accelerated 360

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Redlands → Redlands

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

WPR11LA443

Nobody was injured.

The flight instructor’s delayed remedial action and failure to maintain airplane control while performing a simulated aborted landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

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The flight instructor reported that, during a solo training flight, which included an unusual attitude recovery from an aborted landing, he told the student pilot to set up the approach. As the airplane entered the landing flare, the flight instructor pitched the airplane for a higher-than-normal attitude to simulate a balloon effect. Once the airplane started to "slow/stall," the flight instructor told the student pilot to perform a go-around. The student pilot advanced the throttle full forward, but it took "a full second" for the engine to achieve full power, and, by that time, the airplane had stalled and was left of the runway centerline. The flight instructor took the controls and corrected the airplane to the right. The airplane subsequently struck the runway in a left-wing-low attitude, bounced two times, and came to rest adjacent to the runway. A witness to the accident reported that the engine was producing power at the time of the accident.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.