Cessna 150 accident near Yulee, FL
On June 18, 2021, a Cessna 150 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Yulee, FL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- June 18, 2021
- Place
- Yulee, FL
- Aircraft
- Cessna 150 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 30.710°N, 81.544°W
- NTSB ID
- 20210618103288
Official records · ERA21FA258
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn June 18, 2021, about 1106 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150L, N1300Q, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Yulee, Florida. The flight instructor and the student pilot were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to air traffic control (ATC) radar data obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the flight departed Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport (FHB), Fernandina Beach, Florida, about 1056 and proceeded on a northwesterly heading for about 7 miles until over the St. Mary’s River. No ATC services were provided. The airplane performed several 360° turns, at slow speed, about 800 to 1,000 ft above ground level (agl). The last radar return was about 300 ft south of the accident site, at 800 ft agl. Several witnesses at a nearby boat dock reported that the airplane descended into the St. Mary’s River in a near-vertical, nose-down attitude. One witness stated that the airplane was circling and turning while descending; another reported that the airplane descended nose down in a “corkscrew” path. Two of the witnesses recalled that the engine was running until impact with the water. PERSONNEL INFORMATIONAccording to the student pilot’s logbook, the accident flight was her fifth flight at the flight school that operated the airplane. All flights were with the accident flight instructor. She had also logged flight instruction at a different flight school in a Diamond DA-20 airplane and had soloed in the DA-20. The operator’s ground operations di
Probable cause
The flight instructor’s decision to conduct slow flight training at an altitude below the flight school’s minimum recovery altitude and his delayed remedial action when an aerodynamic stall occurred.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
