MKC83LA123 · Cessna 150H
Cessna 150H · Accident: partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From an unrecorded airport to H63 · West Plains, MO
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC83LA123
- 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 150H
- 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
- N6732S
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo H63 · West Plains, 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 go-around
- 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
- Partial 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
- Dual student › Raising of flaps, premature
- Dual student › Throttle/power control, improper use of
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Remedial action, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE FLT INSTRUCTOR (CFI) INITIATED A SIMULATED FORCED LANDING AT ABOUT 500 FT AGL AS THE ACFT WAS CLIMBING DURING TAKEOFF AT NIGHT. THE STUDENT ELECTED TO TURN DOWNWIND FOR A LANDING ON THE DEPARTURE RWY. WHEN THE CFI DETERMINED THAT THE STUDENT WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO REACH THE RWY, HE INCREASED THE THROTTLE TO 1500 RPM & INSTRUCTED THE STUDENT TO PERFORM NORMAL FULL FLAP LANDING. REPORTEDLY, THE STUDENT BECAME ARGUMENTIVE ABOUT HIS JUDGEMENT & ABILITY CONCERNING THE SIMULATED FORCED LANDING. THE STUDENT OVERSHOT THE BASE TO FINAL TURN & THE CFI INSTRUCTED HIM TO GO AROUND. REPORTEDLY, THE STUDENT 'SHOVED' THE THROTTLE FULL OPEN & RAISED THE FLAPS, & AT THE SAME INSTANT, THE ENG STALLED & THE CFI TOOK THE CONTROLS. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE ACFT HIT THE GROUND IN A 3-POINT ATTITUDE, APRX 160 FT SHORT OF THE RWY, & THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC83LA123
- Event ID
- 20001214X43465
- Case number
- MKC83LA123
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-06-10.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 931de68fd28301e1534c03b3e5a16f0c7087173d3e550ee3b29fd10390440e48; retrieved 2026-09-23T22:01:04.933Z.