- Date
- August 2, 1982, 16:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N63572Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71483
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 flight was doing traffic reporting when the engine failed. The pilot selected a place for a forced landing. During the landing, the aircraft bounced out of this lot, went over some buildings, then touched down into an athletic field. During a short rollout, the aircraft collided with a fence and flipped inverted. An examination of the engine revealed that the head of the no. 1 exhaust valve and a piece of the no. 1 intake valve had failed and separated, and the no. 1 piston was damaged. The pieces of the valves were found in the muffler.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63572
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077402
- Airframe hours
- 4,048
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Eagle Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Eagle Aviation, Inc.
- Departed
- LGB · Long Beach, CA
- Destination
- LGB · Long Beach, CA
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
- 23
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 50 in this make and model · 1,190 as pilot in command · 161 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 225° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 172 °F