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FTW83LA249 · Cessna 150M

26 May 1983 · Oklahoma City, OK, United States

Cessna 150M · Accident: undershoot on approach

From Wiley Post Airport (PWA) to an unrecorded destination

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Event

NTSB case
FTW83LA249
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 150M

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
N66245
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Wiley Post Airport (PWA), Oklahoma City, OKTo 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
Approach · VFR pattern final
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
Undershoot
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

  • Dual student › Airspeed(vso), not maintained
  • Dual student › Flare, misjudged
  • Dual student › Lack of recent total experience
  • Dual student › Recovery from bounced landing, improper
  • Pilot in command(cfi) › Instructions, written/verbal, inadequate
  • Pilot in command(cfi) › Remedial action, delayed
  • Pilot in command(cfi) › Remedial action, not performed
  • Pilot in command(cfi) › Supervision, inadequate

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

THE ACFT LANDED HARD SHORT OF THE RWY ON THE NOSEGEAR AND BOUNCED. AS THE ACFT BOUNDED THE CFI ATTEMPTED TO REGAIN CONTROL BUT THE ACFT IMPACTED THE GROUND LEFT WING FIRST AND SLID TO A STOP 100 FT DOWN THE RWY AND 20 FT TO THE LEFT OFTHE RWY. ACCORDING TO THE CFI THE STUDENT WANTED TO APPROACH AT 60 MPH BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS INSTRUCTORS TEACHINGS AND HE DESIRED HER TO 'FLY AT 70 MPH UNTIL THE RWY WAS MADE.' THE STUDENT CONTINUED AT 60 MPH FLARED TOO HIGH, AND STALLED PRIOR TO REACHING THE RWY.

Probable cause

The Certified Flight Instructor's delayed remedial action which resulted in the dual student stalling the airplane.

Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record FTW83LA249
Event ID
20001214X43005
Case number
FTW83LA249
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: ac305a7e2fc4412446dece554f34b527a796590200cc26cb6955ffe29c2ad4f1; retrieved 2026-09-23T22:10:04.495Z.