- Date
- April 12, 1985, 19:40 local (Apr 13, 1985, 00:40 UTC)
- Place
- East Liverpool, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N15JTCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850412019319A
- Case key
- 13042
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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.
Analysis
While on a night/solo x-country flt, the eng had a partial loss of power. The student attempted to make an emergency landing at a nearby arpt, but the rwy lights were not illuminated. At first, the student did not remember that the lights could be controlled by keying the radio. Eventually, he changed the radio to the UNICOM freq (122.8) & turned on the lights. He found that the acft was not in a proper position to land, so he elected to land at an angle to the rwy. During the landing, the acft hit a ditch & nosed over. A subsequent teardown of the eng revealed that the #4 exhaust valve was stuck in the full open position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15JT
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072074
- Airframe hours
- 5,920
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carl Mosketti
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 24, 1984 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- PHD · New Philadelphi, OH
- Destination
- G01 · Beaver Falls, PA
- Airport
- Columbiana County, runway 24, 3,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 72 total · 72 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIT, 22 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.