- Date
- September 5, 1992, 18:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Mcgehee, AR
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N23207Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920905035289A
- Case key
- 18565
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance.
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 was maneuvering his airplane at low altitude to observe his family's farm fields. According to his father, who witnessed the accident, the airplane struck three power lines near a canal next to a bean field and descended uncontrolled to impact the terrain. A small post impact fire in the engine compartment was extinguished by witnesses. No mechanical airplane problem was reported by the pilot or found by the FAA inspector.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23207
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068792
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Purdy, Donnie R.
- Registered owner
- Purdy, Donnie R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 7, 1991 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 235 total · 235 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GLH, 18 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.