- Date
- August 18, 1995, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Paragould, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6041JCessna A150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 29, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950818025669A
- Case key
- 19543
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Probable cause
Loss of engine power due to an undetermined reason. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
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
When the instructor advanced the throttle to terminate a simulated emergency landing, the engine did not respond. A forced landing was made across the rows in a plowed field. During the landing roll, the nose gear separated and the airplane came to rest inverted. The engine was test run following the accident and no discrepancies were found.
Factual narrative
On August 18, 1995, at 1400 central daylight time, a Cessna A150L, N6041J, was substantially damaged during a forced landing near Paragould, Arkansas. The commercial pilot/flight instructor and the dual student pilot were not injured. The airplane departed from Kirk Field in Paragould at 1330 for the local instructional flight conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed.
According to the flight instructor, he and the student were practicing touch and go landings. Following the third takeoff, the flight instructor initiated a "simulated emergency situation" by retarding the throttle and applying carburetor heat. When the instructor advanced the throttle to terminate the maneuver, "no increase in rpm occurred." A forced landing was made across the rows in a plowed field. During the landing roll, the nose gear separated and the airplane came to rest inverted.
A Federal Aviation Administration inspector reported that the engine was test run following the accident and no discrepancies were found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6041J
- Reported as
- Cessna A150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A1500341
- Airframe hours
- 5,950
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Alan E. Weegram
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 10, 1995 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- PGR
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 732 total · 315 in this make and model · 570 as pilot in command · 196 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 79 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.