- Date
- September 12, 1992, 08:59 local (12:59 UTC)
- Place
- Manistee, MI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N6759SCessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920912039089A
- Case key
- 15318
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Probable cause
Undetermined
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 pilot contacted a flight service station via radio and reported engine problems while operating at low altitude over open water. The flight service station lost radio contact with the airplane. A four day search was suspended when no debris, wreckage, or any other evidence of the airplane or pilot, was found in the water or washed up on shore. Damage and injury classification is presumed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6759S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15067559
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- H. Paul Miller
- Registered owner
- Cadillac Rubber Cement Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
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
- 74
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MBL, 70 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.