- Date
- January 15, 1983, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Midland, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N45528Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830115000969A
- Case key
- 20696
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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
The acft nosed over during an emergency landing after an engine failure. The landing was made off arpt in a cotton fieldthe nose gear dug in and the acft nosed over. The engine was torn down after the accident and it was discovered that the #3 connecting rod bolts had separated and the rod locked up the engine. One of the owners had recently installed a new cylinder in the engine and he said he might not have removed all the buffing compound used to remove the glaze on the cylinder bore. No other defects were noted in the engine or airframe.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45528
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076960
- Airframe hours
- 1,549
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tech Flyers Inc.
- Registered owner
- George P. Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 23, 1982 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- SJT · San Angelo, TX
- Destination
- MAF · Midland, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 77 total · 77 in this make and model · 33 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.