- Date
- May 10, 1992, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Warren, VT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N27395Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11782
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to select a safe altitude for flight in mountainous terrain. The downdraft was a factor.
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
While cruising approximately 1,000 feet above tree tops and between two mountains, the airplane encountered a downdraft. The pilot said regardless of surface control input, he could not make the airplane ascend. He tried to maneuver the airplane into safer air space, but there was none. The pilot said he then slowed the airplane down as much as possible and stalled it into the tree tops. The airplane 'mushed' into the trees and came to rest upright suspended above the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N27395
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15066639
- Airframe hours
- 4,061
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Milne
- Registered owner
- Robert Milne
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 24, 1991 · 621 hours before
- Destination
- MHT · Manchester, NH
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 137 total · 80 in this make and model · 137 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BTV, 1 nm away