- Date
- March 25, 2022, 12:54 local (17:54 UTC)
- Place
- Wade, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6714FCessna 150
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- Case key
- 104835
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from power lines during takeoff.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot reported that he had just departed a grass strip when the wing of the airplane dropped and contacted a power line. The student pilot lost control of the airplane and it collided with terrain. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings, the fuselage, and the empennage. No preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane were reported that would have precluded normal operation. Prior to the accident, the student pilot reported that a gust of wind had made the airplane’s wing drop, however a review of weather information found the prevailing wind to be calm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6714F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150 (F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15063314
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 7,283
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David Mcdonald
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- n/a
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
- 58
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 50 total · 5 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.16 inHg
- Observed at
- KDUA, 18 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KDUA 251755Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 23/M02 A3016 RMK AO2=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 1, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 568 KB in all.
Other investigations on N6714F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.