- Date
- August 2, 1986, 17:28 local (21:28 UTC)
- Place
- Nashua, NH
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N66672Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860802037029A
- Case key
- 30229
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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 CFI had allowed the student to make the takeoff, witness observed the C150 flying above the rwy at approx 75 to 100 ft with 20 degree flaps. Other witnesses stated that the nose was observed to pitch up then the left wing dropped and the acft went from sight behind a row of hangars impacting left wing down. Both occupants rec'd serious injuries. Cessna aircraft has not approved this aircraft for takeoff with this flap setting.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66672
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076198
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert R. Levesque
- Registered owner
- Raymond J. Descheneaux
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 12, 1986 · 83 hours before
- Departed
- ASH · Nashua, NH
- Airport
- ASH · Boire Field, runway 14, 5,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 350 in this make and model · 850 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.