- Date
- July 16, 1995, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kalskag, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7892ECessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19950716018719A
- Case key
- 2686
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power for an undetermined reason.
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 airplane had neither flown nor received an annual inspection in about 3 years. The pilot was performing a high speed taxi, attempting to warm the engine. He stated he had insufficient room in which to stop and elected to fly the airplane around the traffic pattern. The airplane's engine began to lose power, so the pilot landed on the tundra, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane was fueled with marine/automotive fuel.
Factual narrative
On July 16, 1995, at 1400 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Cessna 150 airplane, N7892E, registered to a deceased individual and operated by the pilot, crashed into trees 2 miles beyond the end of the Kalskag runway. No flight plan was filed and visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The commercial certificated pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured and the airplane was substantially damaged.
During a telephone conversation with the pilot on July 17, 1995, he stated that he purchased the airplane but the seller passed away before the paperwork transaction could be completed. He stated the airplane needed an annual inspection and he was performing high speed taxi tests attempting to warm up the engine. He said that during one run he was going too fast to stop in the remaining runway and elected to takeoff. As the airplane was climbing out the engine began to lose power and he was forced to land in the tundra. The airplane nosed over.
According to the pilot the airplane was using marine/automotive gasoline.
The pilot stated that a fire at his home consumed the airplane's logbooks, his pilot logbooks, and his pilot and medical certificates.
The airplane had not been flown and had not received an annual inspection in 3 years.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7892E
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17692
- Airframe hours
- 2,600
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth A. Morgan
- Registered owner
- Epjuook
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 16, 1990
- Airport
- KLG · Kalskag, runway 24, 3,200 × 60 ft, gravel
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.