- Date
- February 17, 1987, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Manville, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N63218Cessna 150C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870217003529A
- Case key
- 30607
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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
After making a rest stop, the plt attempted to restart the eng, using a normal start procedure, but the starter would not engage. He tried to turn off the ignition switch, but said that 'possibly due to the fact that I was wearing heavy gloves, I failed to shut the mag switch off completely.' He then got out of the acft with the intention of moving the prop so that the starter would engage. As he moved the prop 'an inch or two,' the eng started. Subsequently, the acft started moving & collided with two other airplanes before it came to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63218
- Reported as
- Cessna 150C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077184
- Airframe hours
- 4,897
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Part 91
- Operator
- Solberg Aviation
- Registered owner
- Solberg Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 11, 1987 · 12 hours before
- Destination
- N51 · Readington, NJ
- Airport
- 47N · Kupper
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,079 total · 1,600 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.