- Date
- June 30, 1990, 17:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Pensacola, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7048BCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900630023109A
- Case key
- 32675
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Probable cause
Instructor pilots failure to assure that the flaps were in the proper position for takeoff resulting in reduced climb performance. This resulted in the forced landing, during which, the airplane collided with a power line, stalled, then crashed to the ground.
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 instructor plt stated that after performing 2 apchs, each to a full stop landing, while preparing to takeoff for a third, he raised the flap selector handle. After departure at about 300 ft, he reported that the acft would not climb. He then selected a field for the forced landing during which, the rt wing collided with a power line. The acft stalled & crashed in the field. There was a momentary fire but it extinguished quickly. He further stated that the flaps were found 20 degs down but does not remember lowering them. The eng started & operated normally during the post-accident eng run.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7048B
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15064132
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edwards, Alan R.
- Airport
- 83J · Coastal, runway 18, 2,510 × 230 ft, grass/turf
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
- 34
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 810 total · 250 in this make and model · 749 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- PNS, 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.