MKC84LA267 · Cessna 150L
Cessna 150L · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From Widmark Airport (MO83) to Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport (MHL)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC84LA267
- 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 150L
- 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
- N16220
- Operator
- Wallace D. Page · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Widmark Airport (MO83), Green City, MOTo Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport (MHL), Marshall, MO
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern downwind
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT ENGINE LOST POWER WHILE DESCENDING AFTER 1 HR OF FLT. DURING THE ENSUEING FORCED LNDG THE PLT SAID HE CHANGED HIS SELECTION OF LANDING SITE BECAUSE OF AN AUTO ON THE SELECTED SITE (A HIGHWAY). THE ACFT WAS LANDED BESIDE THE ROAD &A COLLISION WITH A DIRT BANK RESULTED. THE PLT STATED THAT HE DID NOT CHECK THE FUEL QUANTITY BEFORE TAKEOFF BY VISUAL EXAM OF THE TANKS. HE SAID THAT THE FUEL GAGES INDICATED APRX 1/2 FULL AT PRE-FLT. THE ACFT HOLDS 26 GALLONS IN 2 WING TANKS. ONLY 22.5 GALLONS OF THE 26 IS USABLE. THE UNUSABLE FUEL IS THE INACCESSIBLE FUEL WHILE THE ACFT IS MANEUVERING. THE FAILURE OF POWER OCCURRED WHILE DESCENDING FROM 4100 FT TO 2100 FT MSL. POST ACCIDENT EXAM DID NOT DISCLOSE ANY EVIDENCE OF A PRE-IMPACT MALFUNCTION. THE WX CONDITIONS REPORTED AT THE TIME AND IN THE AREA OF THE ACCIDENT DEPICITS THAT THE ENGINE WAS OPERATING IN CARB ICING CONDITIONS. THE PLT DID NOT DESCRIBE HIS USE OF THE ENGINE CONTROLS, PRIOR TO OR DURING THE POWER LOSS, IN HIS WRITTEN REPORT OR INTERVIEW
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC84LA267
- Event ID
- 20001214X41167
- Case number
- MKC84LA267
- 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: 0b918dedf98eade390f7a3c30c165aae13cdec59f26b3a09e25ba4fc98f586ba; retrieved 2026-09-23T19:30:25.683Z.