- Date
- March 29, 1986, 11:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kailua Kona, HI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N7384GCessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25107
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Stall/spin - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - water,rough
Stall/spin - not correctedCause
Analysis
Ground witnesses observed the acft spiral into the pacific ocean. Neither the plt nor the acft have been recovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7384G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15074701
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Trade Winds Air Service
- Registered owner
- Michael Mitchell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 4, 1985
- Departed
- KOA · Kailua Kona, HI
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 36 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KOA, 8 nm away