- Date
- September 12, 1986, 14:39 local (21:39 UTC)
- Place
- Carbonado, WA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N9250UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860912044729A
- Case key
- 40305
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 instructor and passenger departed on either an introductory flight, initial instructional flight, (or combination thereof). During the flight the aircraft was flown down a canyon which the instructor had flown down previously. As the aircraft approached transmission lines spanning the canyon the aircraft entered an unexplained abrupt nose down maneuver. The pilot in command did not/was unable to maintain adequate clearance with the lines and collision followed. The aircraft then descended out of control to the base of the canyon.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9250U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078200
- Airframe hours
- 3,096
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Spanaflight
- Registered owner
- William H. Raimer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 1986 · 94 hours before
- Departed
- 1S0 · Puyallup, WA
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,050 total · 185 in this make and model · 970 as pilot in command · 236 in the last 90 days · 84 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TCM, 18 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.