- Date
- December 21, 1985, 17:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Mendenhall, MS
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6712GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7048
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)
Visual lookout - inattentiveCause
Diverted attentionCause
Altitude - not maintainedCause
Loss of control - in flight
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt stated that the acft collided with a tree while he was making a low pass over his father's home. The plt said his attention was diverted while making a left turn and the acft descended into the tree.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6712G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-72212
- Airframe hours
- 3,500
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bobby R. Welch
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1985 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- Jackson, MS
- Destination
- Jackson, MS
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,150 total · 46 in this make and model · 7,000 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MBC, 45 nm away