MIA00LA087 · Cessna 150F
Cessna 150F · Accident during takeoff
From Venice Municipal Airport (VNC) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA00LA087
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 150F
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N6630F
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Venice Municipal Airport (VNC), Venice, FLTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Miscellaneous/other
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Pole
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Raising of flaps, not performed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot stated after performing airwork he performed two or three full-stop landings and a go-around using runway 12; the wind at a nearby airport was recorded to be from 300 degrees at 12 knots. During the last landing he 'thinks' the flaps were fully extended then lowered 10 or 20 degrees of flaps for the planned short field takeoff from runway 12. He last recalled being at 300-400 feet and thought there was an engine malfunction due 'not good airspeed.' During the forced landing the airplane collided with a vehicle, then the ground. Postaccident, the flaps were fully extended; and were operational. By design, the flap selector requires a pilot to hold down or hold up to extend or retract the flaps respectively, to attain the desired position. The airplane owner's manual states flap deflections of 30 and 40 degrees are not recommended for takeoff. Sufficient quantity of uncontaminated fuel was found and no evidence of flight control or engine preimpact failure or malfunction found. The engine was overhauled approximately 1, 972 hours earlier. There were no reports of engine or airframe related discrepancies by a CFI and student who flew the airplane a day earlier.
Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to retract the flaps from the fully extended position following the last landing resulting in the failure to maintain airspeed and subsequent descent for a forced landing. A contributing factor in the accident was the pilot's disregard for the wind direction resulting in a 12 knot tailwind on departure.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA00LA087
- Event ID
- 20001212X20534
- Case number
- MIA00LA087
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 9cbee3380f927a41f23c1a25fe389b1b3f90875bc7c67332b0914c99a414dabe; retrieved 2026-09-21T20:18:38.571Z.