- Date
- April 13, 1986, 08:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Snellings, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N5150BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25122
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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 CFI stated that he pulled the acft up to avoid birds and then lowered the nose to gain airspeed from 70 KTS back to cruise speed. During the dive the acft collided with a power line that crossed a river at about 50 ft AGL. After the collision the acft was flown back to the point of departure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5150B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283777
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Esco Aviation
- Registered owner
- Charles F. Forbes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MCE · Merced, 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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 800 total · 400 in this make and model · 550 as pilot in command · 190 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MER, 10 nm away
Other investigations on N5150B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.