Event MIA00LA037

Factual narrative

On December 1, 1999, about 1700 eastern standard time, a Cessna 150M, N704YE, registered to a private individual, operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight, crashed on landing at Moore-Murrell Airport, Morristown, Tennessee. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage and the student pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. The flight departed the same airport about 1 hour before the accident. According to the student pilot, after his third touch-and-go landing, he applied power for the takeoff and the airplane began a left drift off the runway. Once into the grass, the right wing struck the ground, and the airplane "cartwheeled" to the left, coming to rest on the nose and left wing. According to FAA personnel, the pilot stated that when the airplane skidded off the runway edge into soft dirt and grass, he elected to abort the takeoff. Before he got the airplane stopped, the nose landing gear collapsed, causing damage to both wing spars and the firewall. The student pilot was conducting solo touch and go landings, and on his third landing, as he was applying power for the takeoff, the airplane veered left. Despite his application of right rudder the airplane continued off the left edge of the runway, collapsing the nose landing gear, and striking the terrain with the right wingtip, inducing a left 'cartwheel'. The airplane came to rest in the grass on it's nose and left wing, having sustained wing spar and firewall damage. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12