NYC83FA157 · Cessna 150L
Cessna 150L · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Teterboro Airport (TEB) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC83FA157
- 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
- N10049
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Teterboro Airport (TEB), TETERBORO, NJTo 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
- Approach
- 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/spin; Utility pole
- 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
- Pilot in command › Mental performance overload
- Pilot in command › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Hackensack, NJ, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
ACCORDING TO THE STUDENT'S FLT INSTRUCTOR (CFI), HE (THE CFI) HAD INFORMED GROUND CONTROL THAT THE STUDENT WAS GOING TO BE ON HIS 1ST SOLO FLT & WAS GOING TO FLY ONCE AROUND THE PATTERN. REPORTEDLY, THIS RADIO CALL WAS MADE BEFORE THE CFI DEPLANED AFTER DUAL INSTRUCTION. THE STUDENT THOUGHT THAT THE CFI'S ADVISORY WOULD BE COORDINATED WITH LOCAL CONTROL. THEREFORE, HE DID NOT ADVISE THAT HE WAS A STUDENT PLT ON HIS INITIAL CALL FOR TAKEOFF CLEARANCE. AFTER TAKEOFF, THE STUDENT WAS ADVISED TO REMAIN OUTSIDE THE CONTROL ZONE, DUE TO NUMEROUS INBOUND ACFT. HE DEPARTED FOR A TIME. SUBSEQUENTLY, HE WAS CLEARED TO REPORT OVERHEAD TO ENTER A DOWNWIND, BUT REPORTEDLY, HE DID NOT CALL UNTIL ON A DOWNWIND. ON BASE, HE MADE A 360 DEG TURN TO AVOID A POSSIBLE CONFLICT WITH OTHER TRAFFIC WITHOUT CONTACTING THE TOWER. WHILE MANEUVERING, THE ACFT ENTERED A STALL/SPIN. THE STUDENT RECOVERED APRX 150 FT AGL, THEN ATTEMPTED TO LAND ON A ROAD. TO AVOID CARS, HE TURNED AWAY, BUT COLLIDED WITH A POWER LINE POLE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC83FA157
- Event ID
- 20001214X43483
- Case number
- NYC83FA157
- 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: 44c88667fa36f209b71d034e5add365121170c05ffca53a7757eb56e033e7a0c; retrieved 2026-09-22T02:37:00.805Z.