Maybe I'm being a bit harsh but every plane has its limits and it is the
responsibility of the pilot to know and respect those limits. If they were
unable to execute a go-around then either they did something wrong (like
completely retracting full flaps all at once?) or they initiated the
go-around too late. Performance degradation due to known conditions such as
density altitude and operation near gross are the pilot's responsibility.
An engine not producing full power due to age is marginal, I know I take
that into account and a lot of others do also, but sometimes that is tough
to do but in any case they seemed to have gotten too close to what they
thought was the edge of the envelope but what was outside it.



"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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I am a local and was at the airport the day the of the accident. It was
over
100 degrees out and high humidity look at the performance of a almost run
out "tired" C-150 when it is 104 degrees out, humid, pushing gross
weight
and landing on a short grass strip with tall trees not far from the end of
the runway.



"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message
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How can you tell from that report?

If they were slow and retracted the full flaps that could be a problem.


"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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Read this and see if it sounds like something is missing such as
aircraft
performance and other things.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/GenPDF.asp?...04CA136&rpt=fa