- Date
- July 25, 1990, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Jamul, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N446VKCessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900725028479A
- Case key
- 26875
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Probable cause
The pilot's delay in applying carburetor heat.
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 pilot was practicing forced landings when the engine failed after a gliding descent with the engine at flight idle. When the engine failed to respond to the application of throttle the pilot attempted to land on a road. The empennage impacted a fence during the landing flare substantially damaging the aircraft. The temperature/dew point spread was favorable for serious carburetor icing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N446VK
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070313
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Plus One Flyers, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- MYF · San Diego, 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 471 total · 60 in this make and model · 390 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 54 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- SAN, 13 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.