SEA82DA025 · Cessna 150J
Cessna 150J · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) while maneuvering
From Felts Field (SFF) to Felts Field (SFF)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA82DA025
- 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 150J
- 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
- N5527G
- Operator
- Karen Kieran
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Felts Field (SFF), Spokane, WATo Felts Field (SFF), Spokane, WA
- 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
- Maneuvering
- 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
DURING FLIGHT, THE INSTRUCTOR ASKED THE STUDENT TO PERFROM A POWER-OFF APPROACH-TO-LANDING STALL. THE STUDENT BEGAN THE MANEUVER AT ABOUT 4600 FT WITH THE CARBURETOR HEAT ON. DURING RECOVERY, HE ABRUPTLY ADVANCED THE THROTTLE AND THE ENGINE BEGAN TO LOSE POWER. THE INSTRUCTOR TOOK CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER, THE ENGINE CEASED OPERATING. THE INSTRUCTOR ATTEMPTED TO RESTART THE ENGINE, BUT SAID THAT HE WAS UNABLE, DUE TO LACK OF BATTERY POWER. DURING A SUBSEQUENT FORCED LANDING, THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN ON TERRAIN COVERED WITH DEEP SNOW AND NOSED OVER. DURING AN INVESTIGATION, THE CARBURETOR AND ASSOCIATED COMPONENTS WERE INSPECTED FOR ICE OR OTHER FOREIGN MATERIAL; HOWEVER, NONE WAS FOUND. THE ENGINE WAS REMOVED FROM THE AIRCRAFT AND PLACED ON A TEST STAND. IT OPERATED NORMALLY DURING A GROUND RUN. PREVIOUSLY, ONE CELL OF THE BATTERY WOULD NOT HOLD A CHARGE. THIS REQUIRED "HAND PROPPING" OF THE ENGINE ON THE FIRST FLIGHT OF THE DAY. ALSO, THE BATTERY WAS SLOW TO RECHARGE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA82DA025
- Event ID
- 20020917X02582
- Case number
- SEA82DA025
- 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: 6b93ae83fdcf7005542ea6a4744fa73a5e76b6e28835c9279a55146a0e3ff0e2; retrieved 2026-09-24T03:43:27.687Z.