Cessna 150F N524CC

Summary

On 21 June 2012 at about 02:00 local time, a Cessna 150F registered N524CC was involved in an accident near Jackson, California, United States. One person was 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

21 June 2012 at 02:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Jackson, California, United States

Nearest airport

Westover Field/Amador County (JAQ)

Coordinates

38.3767, -120.7939

Aircraft

Cessna 150F

Registration

N524CC

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Grass Valley → Jackson

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

WPR12LA272

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot's loss of directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot reported that as the nose wheel landing gear touched down after a normal landing, the airplane suddenly veered to the left. When the student pilot applied control inputs to correct the veer, the airplane swerved “extremely fast” to the right and exited the right side of the runway. Subsequently, the airplane traveled down an embankment and nosed over. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that both the left and right nose landing gear rod end bearings were fractured. Metallurgical analysis of the rod end bearing fracture surfaces indicated that they exhibited features consistent with overload failures in an aft direction; however, investigators were unable to determine if the overload failures occurred as a result of a hard landing or during the runway excursion.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.