Cessna 150M N439WT

Summary

On 10 April 2021 at about 18:30 local time, a Cessna 150M registered N439WT was involved in an accident near Tishomingo, Oklahoma, 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

10 April 2021 at 18:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Tishomingo, Oklahoma, United States

Nearest airport

Tishomingo Airpark (0F9)

Coordinates

34.1985, -96.6745

Aircraft

Cessna 150M

Registration

N439WT

Category

Airplane

Year built

1976

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN21LA188

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s decision to abort the takeoff on encountering a wind gust and his landing beyond the end of the runway that resulted in the airplane impacting a ditch collapsing the nose landing gear.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported he was taking off on personal flight when a gust of wind lifted the airplane’s wing, and the airplane became airborne during his corrective control input. The pilot continued the climbout and attempted to gain airspeed, but the airplane did not accelerate and seemed to slow. The pilot elected to land the airplane to avoid trees that were ahead of him. The airplane touched down on a grass area just beyond the end of the runway but impacted in a drainage ditch about 100 ft. beyond the departure end of the runway that collapsed the nose landing gear. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mounts at the nose landing gear. A Federal Aviation Administration inspector reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations and that the engine was making power at impact. At the time of the accident, the pilot was taking off on runway 35 with a quartering wind from the northwest. The pilot reported that he may have encountered wind shear over the treetops which might have kept him low and slow to accelerate.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.