- Date
- May 12, 1984, 11:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- So.Bethlehem, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4024UCessna C150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840512017139A
- Case key
- 35555
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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 student pilot and instructor had just started the inital climb when the engine quit at about 100 ft. the application of carburator heat caused a few second burst of power then the engine stopped again. The CFI took the controls and turned left. He landed the aircraft in some high brush next to the airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4024U
- Reported as
- Cessna C150
- Category
- Airplane
- Airframe hours
- 4,675
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sport Flyers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 9, 1984
- Departed
- So. Albany, NY
- Airport
- So Albany, runway 19, 2,800 × 100 ft, dirt
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
- 53
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 750 in this make and model · 24 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4024U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.