- Date
- September 28, 1982, 20:33 local (Sep 29, 1982, 01:33 UTC)
- Place
- Tomball, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6229GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820928052409A
- Case key
- 72834
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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
A student pilot preparing to land pulled the mixture control instead of the carburetor heat control. The engine quit and the pilot started to land on a road. But had to take evasive action to avoid collision with a car. The right wing collided with a bush and swung the aircraft off the road.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6229G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071729
- Airframe hours
- 2,650
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Paul I. Young
- Registered owner
- Joseph R. Turcotte
- Departed
- DWH · Tomball, TX
- Destination
- DWH · Tomball, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DWH · David Wayne Hooks, runway 17, 7,000 × 110 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 64 in this make and model · 16 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 130° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.