- Date
- February 4, 1991, 10:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N63644Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910204001589A
- Case key
- 41385
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
An undetermined loss of engine power.
Analysis
During a local instructional flight, the student had just completed a maneuver when the flight instructor told the student to apply full power to return to the airport. The student applied full power, however, the engine did not respond. The airplane stalled and the flight instructor took over to regain control. At this point the airplane had lost altitude and the instructor did not feel there was enough time or altitude to regain power to the engine. The instructor pulled off the mixture and initiated a forced landing in a field, where during the landing roll, he collided with a ditch. During the post crash engine test run, the engine was found to run with no abnormalities noted.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63644
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077450
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Air Academy
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 523 total · 39 in this make and model · 411 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- 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.