- Date
- June 25, 1983, 13:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- San Diego, CA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8496MCessna A150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830625026919A
- Case key
- 23767
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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
Witnesses observed the acft circling over the housing development at low altitude. The acft banked steeply, pitched up & the nose fell through the horizon. The student plt flying the acft resided four houses away from where the acft crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8496M
- Reported as
- Cessna A150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A15000196
- Airframe hours
- 4,564
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviation Exployer Post, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 22, 1983 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- MYF · Montgomery, runway 28L, 3,400 × 150 ft
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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 1 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEE, 4 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.