This January 2009 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others.
Aircraft: Cessna 150. Injuries: None. Location: Sellersburg, Ind. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: The student pilot, accompanied by a flight instructor, was attempting to takeoff. Shortly after liftoff the airplane turned slightly into the wind, climbed out of ground effect, then stalled. The flight instructor immediately assumed control of the airplane and attempted to recover from the stall, but lacked sufficient altitude. The airplane landed nose first and bounced several times.
Probable cause: The student pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed during takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall at a low altitude. An additional cause was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
For more information: NTSB.gov
As an “ole school” CFI, the new breed of so called “instructors” are only concerned with how neat glass,Garmin,etc is! A total lack of basic “stick and rudder” skills is sorely missing! What little instruction I do now days, I stress flying by “feel”, rather then a rigid strick set of “numbers” not necessarily applicable to light aircraft. Shortly after the famous “Hudson River” emergency landing by a VERY skilled “older” Captain, I refered this “incident” to many newer licensed and students pilots; what do you do when “everything(technology)turns to s—t?
FLY THE PLANE or back to BASICS!
The facts of this accident are that, no accident is the same, nor are the response to the variables that contribute to an accident. With that said we should project a positive mentality so that everyone will benefit from this occurence in print and those directly involved would be encouraged to continue their growth within the GA community. Also there has never been a day on this earth where the weather variables were exactly the same as another day!!!! So by this our controll corrections will never be the same also!!!!!
Excellent comment, Young Eagle Pilot. I agree with you 100%. Most comments on here are nothing but negative and derogatory. They do nothing but divide.
(reply to The Doc)This kind of negative comments and infighting is the root cause of the deterioration of general aviation. When you make public comments of this nature it only fuels the persons that seem to have a quest to have small aviation airports shut down because of the fear of the unkown. Rather than just making negative comments on public forums (The Doc), if it is so bad out there, what have YOU done to try to improve the saftety, or promotion of aviation in general? We all need to work together or our flying passions will just become nothing but dream!
What was this instructor doing and thinking? Why is this student making a turn out of ground affect and not the 500 feet above the departure end of the runway? Wow no wonder these young people don’t finish they just get scared and quit.
Just one more “shining example” of really lousy flight instruction! The NTSB reports are littered with them! No wonder so many students drop out of flight training. They come to realize they know more than the person teaching them! Of course, the NTSB is “so poorly staffed” with “knowledgable and skilled” investigators, it’s a wonder they even examined the instructors involvement, or should I say a complete lack thereof! If an insteructor cannot determine an approaching “departure stall” in time to avert it, they are too incompetent to be instructing!