- Date
- January 29, 1987, 15:40 local (23:40 UTC)
- Place
- Vancouver, WA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N50922Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870129001279A
- Case key
- 40513
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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
Aircraft was returning from stage 3 instructional flight during which instructor normally allowed student to fly. Evidence indicates aircraft passed in vicinity of heavy bird activity and student executed nose down bird avoidance maneuver. Instructor, for unknown reasons possibly related to previous bird strike occurrence, executed a counter maneuver (rolling pullup) which resulted in design limitations of right wing being exceeded. No evidence of any pilot impairment nor aircraft mechanical malfunctions were found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50922
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15069645
- Airframe hours
- 5,174
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Coe I. Durland
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 15, 1987 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- 60S · Vancouver, 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
- 61
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,196 total · 373 in this make and model · 1,996 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PDX, 11 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.