- Date
- October 27, 1984, 18:15 local (Oct 28, 1984, 01:15 UTC)
- Place
- Lower Lake, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N66592Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841027060849A
- Case key
- 24588
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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 plt reported that he originally planned to start the acft eng in order to charge the battery. The eng started using the acft starter so the plt decided to fly. He set the parking brake & with the eng running at a 'fast idle', exited the acft, intending to remove the tie down chains from the wings. The parking brake failed to hold the acft, it pulled loose from the tie down chains accelerated to about 50 mph & collided with a parked Piper, N381CB, coming to rest after impacting the airport perimeter fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66592
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076142
- Airframe hours
- 4,590
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Resort Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · September 14, 1984 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- 209 · Lower Lake, CA
- Airport
- 209 · Pearce Fld, runway 6
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 695 total · 50 in this make and model · 492 as pilot in command · 57 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 10 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.