- Date
- September 27, 1990, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colts Neck, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7006GCessna 150F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900927064379A
- Case key
- 36744
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Probable cause
The pilot stalling the airplane during takeoff from a closed airport. Also causal to the accident was the pilot's decision to attempt the takeoff on the runway with high grass and to use one half the available runway lenght.
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 airplane was landed at the airport by a student pilot, who ran low of fuel during a training flight. The student phoned his instructor, who came to the airport, refueled the airplane, and attempted the takeoff on a runway with grass 8 to 10 inches high, using one half the available runway length. The pilot said, '...the engine sputtered and stalled out.' After the accident, the FAA reported, 'the engine started promptly and ran perfectly without any indication of a sputter or stall of any type.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7006G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 63404-6A
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Randy Fanelli
- Destination
- 1D7 · Blairstown, NJ
- Airport
- N61 · Colts Neck, runway 25, 2,560 × 120 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 45 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.