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WPR18LA255 · Cessna 150 F

4 Sept 2018 · Richland, MO, United States

Cessna 150 F · Accident: loss of control on ground during landing

From Waynesville-St. Robert Regional Airport-Forney Field (TBN) to Richland Municipal Airport (MO1)

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Event

NTSB case
WPR18LA255
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
Unknown
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 150 F

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
N8028F
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Waynesville-St. Robert Regional Airport-Forney Field (TBN), Fort Leonard Wood, MOTo Richland Municipal Airport (MO1), Richland, MO
Aircraft age
About 52 years (built 1966)
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
Landing · landing roll
Defining eventThe 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
Loss of control on ground
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

  • Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
  • Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
  • Personnel issues › Task performance

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

NTSB narrative

The flight instructor and student pilot were performing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings on runway 14. The instructor stated that the second touch-and-go “went bad,” but he could not remember the events of the accident. The student pilot did not provide a statement. The recorded weather conditions at a nearby airport about the time of the accident included wind from 160° at 17 knots with gusts to 23 knots, resulting in a 7-knot right crosswind component for the landing runway. The airplane came to rest inverted about 1,800 ft down the 3,000-ft-long runway. The wing flaps were in the fully extended position, and examination of the flight controls revealed no anomalies. The runway displayed impact markings consistent with contact from the left wing about 1,700 ft down the runway and to the right of the runway centerline. The circumstances of the accident are consistent with a loss of directional control during a touch-and-go landing in gusting crosswind conditions.

Probable cause

A loss of directional control during a touch-and-go landing in gusting crosswind conditions.

Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record WPR18LA255
Event ID
20180904X55852
Case number
WPR18LA255
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: 6cc513d5840832579770bad6560f74ef9c88645f1961006e8e7520d9fa50abc1; retrieved 2026-09-16T08:12:13.891Z.