Cessna 150J N60509

Summary

On 31 July 2025 at about 21:00 local time, a Cessna 150J registered N60509 was involved in an accident near Soldotna, Alaska, United States. 2 people were on board and one was seriously injured, one had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause has been published yet; this accident is still under investigation.

Date

31 July 2025 at 21:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Soldotna, Alaska, United States

Nearest airport

Soldotna Airport (sxq)

Coordinates

60.4749, -151.0259

Aircraft

Cessna 150J

Registration

N60509

Category

Airplane

Year built

1969

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Kenai → Kenai

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ANC25LA080

1 person was seriously injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. The investigation is still open; a final report usually follows one to two years after the accident.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On July 31, 2025, about 1300 Alaska daylight time, a Cessna 150J airplane, N60509, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Soldotna, Alaska. The instructor pilot sustained minor injuries and the pilot receiving instruction was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. During a postaccident interview with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC), the instructor pilot reported that, given his injuries, he was unable to remember the exact circumstances surrounding the accident. He recalled he was conducting a local orientation flight to a pilot visiting Alaska and this was the pilot’s first flight in Alaska. He said that at the time of the accident, they were practicing short and soft field landing maneuvers. Given the pilot receiving instruction’s serious injuries sustained in the accident, an NTSB interview is pending. Archived surveillance video data from the Soldotna Airport (SXQ), Soldotna, Alaska, revealed that the airplane departed from runway 7, and it remained at a level attitude as it flew low over the runway as the airplane’s speed continued to increase. As the airplane continued low over the runway, about 50 ft above ground level (agl), and as it approached the end of runway 7, it pitched up aggressively and climbed at a near vertical attitude to about 300 ft agl. As the airplane reached the apex of the vertical climb, it rotated towards the left wing on its yaw axis. The airplane subsequently descended in a near vertical, nose down attitude heading in a westerly direction. The airplane’s nose down descent appears to shallow slightly just before impact with the surface of runway 25. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and empennage. (See figure 1) Figure 1. Accident airplane, N60590, at the Soldotna Airport. A detailed NTSB wreckage examination is pending.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.