- Date
- October 23, 1983, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mobile, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N9196UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6343
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - utility pole(marked)Factor
Clearance - not maintainedCause
InattentiveCause
Analysis
The acft collided with a light pole while taxiing. The instructor pilot was preoccupied with locating a tie down spot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9196U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078147
- Airframe hours
- 3,256
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tcm Flying Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 8, 1983
- Departed
- PGI · Pascagoula, AL
- Destination
- BFM · Mobile, AL
- Airport
- BFM · Brooklyn Field
N9196URegistration cancelled Nov 19, 2012 · Cessna 150MAirframe modelCessna 150MEngine modelContinental 0-200 series
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
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,355 total · 1,475 in this make and model · 2,156 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F