"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.

Apparently you know some things about the 150 that are not in the report. I
have no idea what the pilots weigh, either, or anything about the loading of
the airplane.

It seems to me that the 150 should have been able to handle the landing. The
mistake seems to me that the instructor allowed himself to get behind the
student and the airplane and did not initiate corrective action in time.
Raising flaps at the wrong time sure did not help.

I don't buy the "tired" bit. I would bet dollars to donuts that the airplane
would have performed almost exactly the same way on the day it rolled out of
the factory.

Lucky they did not stall and kill someone like that similar accident we
talked about in another thread here a month or so ago -- the one where an
inexperienced instructor took her student and two of the student's children
to a short field. She got behind the student, initiated a go around too
late, and when the student saw that they were going to hit trees he grabbed
the controls and stalled, killing himself.