SEA95LA083 · Cessna 150J
Cessna 150J · Accident: loss of engine power during initial climb
From Cashmere-Dryden Airport (8S2) to Pangborn Memorial Airport (EAT)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA95LA083
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 150J
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N60886
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Cashmere-Dryden Airport (8S2), WATo Pangborn Memorial Airport (EAT), Wenatchee, WA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE AIRPLANE'S ENGINE SUDDENLY LOST ALL POWER IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKEOFF. THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO SWITCH FUEL TANKS AND RESTART THE ENGINE, BUT HIS EFFORTS WERE UNSUCCESSFUL. THE PILOT FORCE LANDED THE AIRPLANE IN ROUGH TERRAIN, CAUSING SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ENGINE DID NOT REVEAL EVIDENCE OF PRE-IMPACT MECHANICAL MALFUNCTIONS. FUEL WAS FOUND IN THE GASCOLATOR AND FUEL PUMP. THE CARBURETOR RECEIVED THERMAL AND IMPACT DAMAGE. PIECES OF THE ONE-PIECE VENTURI WERE FOUND IN THE LOWER PORTIONS OF TWO ENGINE INTAKE TUBES. DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE CARBURETOR AND VENTURI PIECES DID NOT REVEAL EVIDENCE OF PRE-IMPACT ANOMALIES. THE AIRPLANE HAD BEEN OPERATING AS A GLIDER TOWING AIRCRAFT WHILE UTILIZING AUTOMOTIVE FUEL FOR SEVERAL YEARS PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT.
Probable cause
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS ROUGH TERRAIN.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA95LA083
- Event ID
- 20001207X03385
- Case number
- SEA95LA083
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 7215d955b568ffa1f875e4cdbeaa9100058a9a9b24c57c1ad5a78da7872efaad; retrieved 2026-09-21T22:20:43.092Z.