- Date
- March 2, 1982, 18:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Huma Cao, PR
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N2741JCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820302000609A
- Case key
- 71112
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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 aircraft was reported to have departed at or near sunset on a 30 minute aerobatic flight and did not return. During that period, an aircraft matching its description was observed to crash near by in the ocean while the pilot was performing aerobatics. A witness observed that two objects came from the aircraft just prior to the crash. He thought the objects may have been a door and the pilot, but he was not sure. Two days later, parts of an aircraft that matched the missing plane, washed ashore.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2741J
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A1500579
- Airframe hours
- 3,048
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A48, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Navy Roosevelt Roads Flying Cl
- Registered owner
- Navy Roosevelt Roads Flying Cl
- Departed
- NRR · Roosevelt Roads, PR
- Destination
- NRR · Roosevelt Roads, PR
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,800 total · 500 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 167 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NRR, 8 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.