- Date
- January 13, 1987, 15:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Ellicott City, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N18140Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11303
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Approximately 30 minutes after the pilot departed hayes field, columbia, Maryland, the pilot elected to return to the field. After entering downwind the engine ceased to continue producing power and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. During the landing the aircraft collided with trees and was substantially damaged. In a statement filled out by the pilot shortly after the accident there is no mention of using carburetor heat at any time during the flight. The butterfly valve in the carburetor heat box was found bent in the cold position. Conditions during the flight were conducive to carburetor icing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18140
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073815
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Flite-Rentals, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 22, 1986 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- MD24 · Ellicott City, MD
- Airport
- MD24 · Hays Field, runway 31, 2,500 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 107 total · 63 in this make and model · 59 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWI, 13 nm away
Other investigations on N18140 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.