BFO93LA035 · Cessna 150M
Cessna 150M · Accident: loss of engine power during initial climb
From Greene County/Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport (I19) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- BFO93LA035
- 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 150M
- 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
- N63369
- Operator
- Grover C. Mathews · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Greene County/Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport (I19)To 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
- 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
SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, THE ENGINE LOST PARTIAL POWER. THE CFI STATED HE APPLIED CARBURETOR HEAT, AND THE ENGINE LOST MORE POWER. HE STATED HE TURNED THE CARBURETOR HEAT OFF AND THE ENGINE REGAINED SOME POWER AND THEN CONTINUED TO LOSE POWER. HE STATED HE SWITCHED MAGNETOS, BUT NOTHING HELPED TO RESTORE POWER. HE EXECUTED AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN A FIELD BELOW HIS FLIGHT PATH. THE AIRPLANE SLID ALONG THE SNOW COVERED GROUND UNTIL IT IMPACTED A ROW OF TREES. THE AIRPLANE AND ENGINE WERE EXAMINED WITH NO ANOMALIES FOUND. AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT, DAYTON WEATHER FACILITY WAS REPORTING A TEMPERATURE OF 19 DEGREES F AND A DEW POINT OF 11 DEGREES F. THE PILOT STATED THAT PRIOR TO THE FLIGHT, THE AIRPLANE WAS COVERED WITH SNOW AND ICE. HE STATED HE TOWED THE AIRPLANE INTO A HANGAR AND HEATED THE AIRPLANE FOR 45 MINUTES. HE STATED HE HEATED THE AIRPLANE UNTIL ALL THE ICE AND SNOW WAS MELTED AND THEN MOVED THE AIRPLANE OUTSIDE. HE SAID THE AIRPLANE WAS OUTSIDE ABOUT 10 MINUTES BEFORE THEY STARTED THE ENGINE.
Probable cause
LOSS OF PARTIAL POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record BFO93LA035
- Event ID
- 20001211X11792
- Case number
- BFO93LA035
- 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: d0e26bf5c6ee51afa4d2c90bf87ad6612ffd705a7eeda7902d60eeac61d83972; retrieved 2026-09-21T23:01:50.650Z.