RUSH SPRINGS, OK, USA
N1254Q
Cessna 150L
The pilot reported that when the flight departed, the winds were from the northwest. She flew the airplane about 3 miles south to her private residential grass airstrip. Prior to the landing on runway 35, she noted that the windsock was straight out toward the east, and she estimated the winds at 25 to 30 mph from the west. She configured the airplane with full flaps (40 degrees) and landed the airplane toward the north. During the landing roll on the runway, she reached over and selected flaps up and pushed the carburetor heat in; then noticed that the aircraft had become airborne approximately 10 feet agl, and had turned 30 degrees left. Before she could react, the aircraft hit the ground nose wheel first and came to rest inverted.
On February 26, 2000, at 1430 central standard time, a Cessna 150L, single-engine airplane, N1254Q, nosed over during the landing roll at a private grass airstrip near Rush Springs, Oklahoma. The airplane was owned by private individuals and operated under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The private pilot was not injured, and the airplane sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local personal flight, and a flight plan was not filed. The flight originated from another local airstrip at approximately 1400. The pilot reported to the NTSB investigator-in-charge that when the flight departed the grass airstrip across from their local business, the winds were from the northwest. She flew the airplane about 3 miles south to their private residential airstrip, which is approximately 3,000 feet in length. Prior to the landing on runway 35, the pilot noted that the windsock was straight out toward the east, and she estimated the winds at 25 to 30 mph from the west. She configured the airplane with full flaps (40 degrees) and landed the airplane toward the north. During the landing roll on the runway, as "[she] reached over and selected flaps up and pushed [the] carb heat in, then [she] noticed that the aircraft had become airborne and had turned 30 [degrees] left, the aircraft was approximately 10 feet in the air. Before [she] could do anything, the aircraft hit the ground nose wheel first and came to rest upside down." The FAA inspectors responding to the site found structural damage to the engine firewall, vertical stabilizer, and right wing. The propeller and nose landing gear were also damaged.
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft during landing roll. Factors were the pilot's diverted attention to raising the flaps and the high wind conditions.
Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database
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