Cessna 150F N3589L

Summary

On 4 January 2025 at about 15:44 local time, a Cessna 150F registered N3589L, operated by Texins Flying Club, was involved in an accident near McKinney, Texas, 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

4 January 2025 at 15:44

Classification

Accident

Location

McKinney, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

McKinney National Airport (TKI)

Coordinates

33.1771, -96.5888

Aircraft

Cessna 150F

Registration

N3589L

Category

Airplane

Year built

1965

Engines

1

Operator

Texins Flying Club

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

McKinney → McKinney

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN25LA071

Nobody was injured.

The flight instructor’s inadequate supervision and delayed remedial action and the student pilot’s failure to maintain a proper landing flare, which resulted in a nose down impact with the runway.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot and flight instructor were practicing touch-and-go landings with a left crosswind of about 5 knots. The student pilot reported that the airplane began to drift right during the landing flare. As he corrected for the right drift, the airplane pitched nose down and landed on the nose landing gear. The nose landing gear then collapsed, and the airplane slid to a stop on the runway in a nose down attitude. Several engine mount tubes fractured when the nose landing gear collapsed aft. The student pilot reported that he did not maintain a proper landing flare while he corrected for the right drift.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.