# Incident 20060830019379I: Cessna 150H, Kokomo, IN, August 30, 2006

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 30, 2006, 17:55 local time
- Place: Kokomo, IN
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.4864° N, 86.1336° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Kokomo, IN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.4864&lon=-86.1336&mi=10
- Aircraft: N22523, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N22523) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 150H (registry code 2071818, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150h) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental 0-200 series (registry code 17020, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-200-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150H
- Reported engine: CONT O200A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,000 total, 500 in this make and model, 150 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060830019379I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON 8/30/2006, AT APPROX. 1755 LOCAL, APPROX. 5 MILES SOUTH OF GLENNDALE AIRPORT (8I3), N22523, A CESSNA 150H, MADE AN OFF-AIRPORT LANDING DUE TO ENGINE POWER LOSS. THE INSTRUCTOR HAD BEEN PROVIDING PRIVATE PILOT TRAINING TO THE STUDENT AND RETURNING TO 8I3 FOR LANDING, WHEN THE ENGINE BEGAN TO LOSE POWER. THE INSTRUCTOR, SUSPECTING CARB. ICE, APPLIED CARB. HEAT. THE ENGINE BEGAN TO SHAKE VIOLENTLY, SO HE LEANED THE MIXTURE, WHICH WAS NO HELP. THE ENGINE CONTINUED TO LOSE POWER. AN OFF-AIRPORT EMERGENCY LANDING WAS MADE, WITH THE AIRCRAFT ENDING UP INVERTED, NOSE POINTING APPROX. 290 DEGREES, IN A SOYBEAN FIELD, WITH MINOR INJURY TO THE INSTRUCTOR AND NO INJURY TO THE STUDENT. THE FUSELAGE BOTTOM WAS COVERED WITH ENGINE OIL. THE OIL DRAIN PLUG WAS MISSING FROM THE OIL SUMP AND LESS THAN 2 PINTS OF OIL WAS RECOVERED FROM THE ENGINE. SUSPECT THE OIL DRAIN PLUG WAS IMPROPERLY TORQUED, THEN NOT SAFETIED, ALLOWING THE PLUG TO LOOSEN OVER TIME, UNTIL IT FELL OUT, LETTING THE OIL DRAIN OUT, CAUSING THE ENGINE TO OVERHEAT (EVIDENCED BY HEAT DISCOLORED CYLINDERS), AND PREMATURE IGNITION (DETONATION) OCCURRED, LEADING TO LOSS OF ENGINE POWER, WHICH THE PILOT BELIEVED WAS DUE TO CARB. ICE.

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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