- Date
- October 29, 1999, 14:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Bay Springs, MS
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6444FCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 21, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19991029041329A
- Case key
- 47663
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain flying speed that resulted in a loss of control and stall. A factor was a stuck exhaust valve.
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 took off from runway 16 and the engine lost partial engine power on initial climb. The pilot decided to return to the airport and stalled the airplane during the turn. The airplane subsequently collided with trees and then the ground off the departure end of the runway. Examination of the wreckage revealed that the airplane collided with the ground in a nose-low attitude. The airplane was destroyed. A post-accident teardown examination of the engine revealed that an exhaust valve was stuck in the open position.
Factual narrative
On October 29, 1999, at 1435 central daylight time, a Cessna 150F, N6444F, lost power and collided with trees on the departure end of runway 16 at Bay Springs, Mississippi. The personal flight was conducted by the private pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and visual flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident and no flight plan was filed for the local flight. The airplane was destroyed and the private pilot received minor injuries. The flight departed Bay Springs, Mississippi, at 1430.
According to the FAA, the pilot took off from runway 16 and experienced a partial loss of engine power on initial climb. The pilot decided to return to the airport and reportedly stalled the airplane during the turn. The airplane subsequently collided with trees and the ground off the departure end of runway 16.
Examination of the wreckage revealed that the airplane collided with the ground in a nose-low attitude. The airplane was destroyed. A post-accident teardown examination of the engine revealed that an exhaust valve was stuck in the open position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6444F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15063044
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jeran K. Hendry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 19, 1998 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- 00M · MS
- Airport
- 00M · Thigpen Field, runway 16, 3,000 × 50 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 750 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAN, 48 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6444F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.