# Accident 19961111034989A: Cessna 150, Bryan, OH, November 11, 1996

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 11, 1996, 18:25 local time
- Place: Bryan, OH
- Airport: Williams County Airport
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.4400° N, 84.7401° W: From the FAA, an estimate near the named town, within about 3 miles
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4400&lon=-84.7401&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5627E, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N5627E-1997-04-22) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 150 (registry code 2071802, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 1,500 total, 1,500 in this make and model
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB IAD97LA019](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/IAD97LA019) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19961111034989A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

FLIGHT OF 2 DEPARTED. PILOT OF NR2 AIRCRAFT ELECTED RETURN BUT LOST CONTROL AND CRASHED. NO NIGHT OR IFR TRAINING. (-23) PILOT #1 RICHARD ROWE - PILOT #2 EDWARD KUMMER (FATAL). TWO CESSNA 150 AIRCRAFT DEPARTED WILLIAMS CO. AIRPORT (0G6), BRYAN, OHIO AT APPROXIMATELY 1815 E. ON 11/11/96, ENROUTE TO ROWE WATERLOO AIRPORT (4C2), WATERLOO INDIANA, ABOUT 23SM TO THE WEST. THEY WERE AIRBORNE ABOUT 7 OR 8 MINUTES WHEN PILOT #2 INFORMED PILOT #1 THAT HE WAS GOING TO RETURN TO THE BRYAN AIRPORT. SHORTLY THEREAFTER PILOT #2 CRASHED IN A CORNFIELD. PILOT #2 WAS NOT INSTRUMENT RATED AND PRIOR TO DEPARTURE DECLARED HE HAD NOT FLOWN AT NIGHT FOR OVER ONE YEAR. AT EYEWITNESS TO THE CRASH STATED THAT HE OBSERVED THE AIRCRAFT IN A NOSE LOW DESCENDING TURN WITH FULL POWER APPLIED.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB IAD97LA019](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/IAD97LA019), Nov 11, 1996: Cessna 150 (N5627E), Edgerton, OH, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: the pilot's Inadvertent VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions resulting in spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of control of the airplane. Factors to this accident were the…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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