ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 289458
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| Date: | Sunday 20 March 2011 |
| Time: | 13:00 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 150H |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | N6555S |
| MSN: | 15067355 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4763 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental O-200 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Maury City, Tennessee -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Halls, TN (M31) |
| Halls, TN (M31) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During a local flight at 500 feet above ground level and about 10 miles from the departure airport, the pilot reported hearing a "pop" sound from the rear of the airplane. Concerned about whether further flight was safe, the pilot elected to perform an off-airport precautionary landing. After reducing engine power, the pilot attempted to "slip" the airplane and noted that the left rudder pedal would not move and that he could not slip the airplane to the left. The airplane subsequently approached the field higher and faster than the pilot intended and overran the intended landing area. Before coming to rest, the nose landing gear collapsed forward, resulting in substantial damage to the firewall. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the nose landing gear steering linkage was pulled taut, which restricted movement of the left rudder pedal. The taut nose landing gear steering linkage was likely the result of the accident sequence. After disconnecting the steering linkage, the rudder operated normally in both directions with no other flight control anomalies noted.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to attain the proper glidepath during on off-airport landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ERA11LA203
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 April 2007 | N6555S | Private | 0 | Dyersburg, Tennessee | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 05-Oct-2022 14:00 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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