- Date
- October 15, 1984, 13:06 local (17:06 UTC)
- Place
- Coolidge, GA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N60960Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841015074149A
- Case key
- 31305
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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 acft collided with a bush during landing. The plt flew under a wire that he saw just in time to avoid hitting and over the 5 foot embankment on the opposite side of an intervening roadway. After the collision, the acft flipped over and slid through a barbed wire fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60960
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070689
- Airframe hours
- 4,416
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles O'Bannon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 29, 1984
- Departed
- ZPH · Zephyhills, FL
- Destination
- Coolidge, GA
- Airport
- 11 · Devane Airstrip
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 244 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MGR, 20 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.