- Date
- October 30, 1993, 16:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chignik, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7022FCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 7, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 2471
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-commands selection of unsuitable terrain on which to perform a takeoff. A factor in the accident was the brush.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot-in-command reported that during the takeoff run at a remote landing site the left wing collided with some tall brush. The airplane veered to the left and went up on its nose and right wing.
Factual narrative
On October 30, 1993, at 1600 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Cessna 150 airplane, N7022F, owned and operated by the pilot-in-command, crashed on takeoff from a remote landing site near Black Lake, Alaska. Black Lake is approximately 35 miles south of Port Heiden, Alaska. The private certificated pilot and his passenger, the sole occupants, were not injured and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The personal flight, operating under 14 CFR Part 91, last departed Chignik Lake and the destination was the remote landing strip. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a VFR flight plan was not filed.
The pilot-in-command told the NTSB investigator-in-charge during a telephone interview, that the takeoff area was marked by brush on both sides. During the takeoff run, the left wing collided with the brush. The airplane veered to the left and went up on its nose and right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7022F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15063622
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lind, Elia
- Registered owner
- William Lind Sr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F
Other investigations on N7022F · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.