IAD96LA131 · Cessna 150F
Cessna 150F · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) while maneuvering
From JJ & PK Airport (PA08) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- IAD96LA131
- 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 150F
- 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
- N6984F
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From JJ & PK Airport (PA08), North East, PATo not recorded
- 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
- Maneuvering
- 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
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The flight instructor (CFI) and student discussed a preparatory flight for the student's upcoming check flight. The accident site was where the flight instructor flew his students to practice maneuvering with the airplane. A witness on the ground stated that he was in a field when he heard an airplane coming from behind. He turned, then observed the airplane fly overhead. Once past him, the witness noted that the airplane engine sound seemed to go to a steady state. The witness stated that the airplane went out of his view, and he did not see the airplane hit the ground. The airplane cleared a set of residential power lines and impacted in a grassy, rough pasture. Ground scars showed that the airplane traveled about 60 feet from the initial impact point, coming to rest in an inverted position facing the direction of the ground scars. The wreckage showed that the airplane impacted the ground in a nose low, right wing down attitude. The temperature and dew point were reported to be 70 and 58 deg, respectively. According to icing probability charts, conditions were conducive to carburetor ice; however, carburetor icing was not verified.
Probable cause
loss of engine power for undetermined reason(s). A high obstruction in the forced landing area was a related factor.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record IAD96LA131
- Event ID
- 20001208X06531
- Case number
- IAD96LA131
- 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: 3035560e91cca8d6ecbba2eba53c0db8ece4c0a2e5e204e3c61e532de26dd9cd; retrieved 2026-09-21T12:34:37.192Z.