ATL88LA134 · Cessna 150C
Cessna 150C · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to Norman Park, GA
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL88LA134
- 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 150C
- 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
- N7956Z
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Norman Park, GA
- 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 control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall
- 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
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Funston, GA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT REPORTED THAT THE ENGINE LOST PWR AT 200-250 FT AGL AFTER DEPARTING RWY 30 AT THE PRIVATE 1,750' SOD AIRSTRIP. HE STRETCHED HIS GLIDE TO AVOID WIRES OFF OF THE END OF THE RWY. AFTER CLEARING THE LINES. THE AIRPLANE NOSE 'FELL THROUGH', AND THE AIRPLANE IMPACTED THE TERRAIN NOSE DOWN. A WX STATION ABOUT 25 MI AWAY WAS REPORTING WINDS FROM 300 AT 17 KTS GUSTING TO 22 KTS AT THE TIME. TWO WITNESSES WHO LIVED ADJACENT TO THE AIRSTRIP REPORTED THAT THE ACFT WAS TOSSED FROM SIDE TO SIDE IN THE GUSTY WINDS AS IT WAS CLIMBING; IT SUBSEQUENTLY 'STALLED OUT' AS THE PLT MADE AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO PULL UP, TO AVOID HITTING THE WIRES. THE WITNESSES DID NOT REPORT ANY CHANGES IN THE ENGINE SOUND. THE REPORTED PURPOSE OF THE FLT WAS TO REPOSITION THE ACFT FOR AN ANNUAL INSPECTION. THE LAST ANNUAL TOOK PLACE ABOUT 5 YRS EARLIER. NO FERRY PERMIT HAD BEEN OBTAINED FOR THE FLT. THE ACFT WRECKAGE WAS EXAMINED BY AN FAA INSPECTOR AND NO PREEXISTING MECHANICAL DEFICIENCIES WERE FOUND.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL88LA134
- Event ID
- 20001213X25393
- Case number
- ATL88LA134
- 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: 4164e9083dd963e95dffee9eda1273cc4b7eb4b91c40b40b90378d583aa03914; retrieved 2026-09-23T10:36:12.325Z.