- Date
- July 27, 1983, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ellensburg, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4098UCessna 150E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830727035739A
- Case key
- 39740
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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 acft landing gear collapsed during a forced landing on a rough road. The acft engine had quit while climbing THROUGH4500 ft after takeoff. The pilot tried leaning and pitot heat. Since the engine would not start the pilot picked a dirt road for landing. The engine restarted just before touchdown but the pilot could not climb with full flaps so when the gear touched he continued the landing. The gear broke off during the roll-out.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4098U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15061498
- Airframe hours
- 2,400
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles B. Casson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 3, 1983 · 157 hours before
- Departed
- ELN · Ellensburg, WA
- Destination
- MVH · Moses Lake, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 46
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,000 total · 252 in this make and model · 15,000 as pilot in command · 183 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YKM, 30 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.
Other investigations on N4098U · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.