- Date
- January 8, 1990, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Talladega, AL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7950FCessna 150L
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900108001019A
- Case key
- 8198
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper inflight decision to attempt to continue VFR flight IMC conditions with no instrument rating, clearance or experience.
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 private, non-instrument rated pilot, flying the lead airplane in a flight of three, flew into a cloud in an area of rising terrain and crashed. The pilots of the other two airplanes executed a 180 degree turn and landed safely at a nearby airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7950F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1500453
- Airframe hours
- 4,469
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Frank G. Fisher
- Registered owner
- Fisher, Frank G
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 15, 1989 · 82 hours before
- Departed
- THA · Tullahoma, TN
- Destination
- CSG · Columbus, GA
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
- 69
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 2,800 in this make and model · 3,500 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANB, 27 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.