- Date
- March 17, 1982, 07:05 local (12:05 UTC)
- Place
- Tilghman Island, MD
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N10914Cessna 150
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 17, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 72817
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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 student pilot/owner of the aircraft was endorsed to fly the plane and would fly it from his farm on Tilghman Island to easton, MD for dual instruction. Several days before the accident, he had asked his instructor (ip) to schedule some time for an early morning flight on 3/17/82. His instructor told him to come "if the weather was good." The ip awoke early that morning and observed heavy fog and low ceilings. He assumed the student would not come and went back to bed. The pilot's mother reported that fog moved in shortly after he took off from his farm. Crewmembers of an oyster boat near the Island heard an aircraft flying low overhead, but could not see the plane due to fog and a low ceiling. Shortly after that, they saw the plane come out of the overcast in a right bank, then level just before crashing in the water. They reported that the engine was running smoothly until it revved just before impact. A blood alcohol level of .14% was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10914
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15075129
- Airframe hours
- 2,121
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronald G. Stinchcomb
- Registered owner
- Ronald G. Stinchcomb
- Departed
- PVT · Tilghman Island, MD
- Destination
- ESN · Easton, MD
- Airport
- PVT · Cromwell Farm
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 42 total · 33 in this make and model · 25 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Temperature
- 113 °F