DEN82DA151 · Cessna 150F
Cessna 150F · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water while maneuvering
From Tribune Municipal Airport (5K2) to Tribune Municipal Airport (5K2)
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN82DA151
- 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 150F
- 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
- N8232S
- Operator
- Darwin Hoffman/Charles Koehn
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Tribune Municipal Airport (5K2), Tribune, KSTo Tribune Municipal Airport (5K2), Tribune, KS
- 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
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- 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 › Diverted attention
- Pilot in command › Proper altitude, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE WAS ON A FLIGHT TO CHECK HIS FIELDS AND CROPS FOR POSSIBLE HAIL DAMAGE. REPORTEDLY, HE DECIDED TO SEE HOW A FRIEND WAS DOING WITH HIS WHEAT HARVEST AND TO SEE IF HE HAD RECEIVED HAIL DAMAGE. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE SPOTTED HIS FRIEND'S COMBINE AND ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A LOW PASS CLOSE TO THE MACHINE. HE STATED THAT HE MISJUDGED HIS DISTANCE AND THE PLANE MADE CONTACT WITH THE GROUND, THEN SKIDDED ABOUT 300 FT TO A STOP. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, THE PILOT BUZZED BY TWO COMBINES AND A GRAIN TRUCK. ONE WITNESS REPORTED THAT HE THOUGHT THE PILOT WAS THEN GOING TO TURN AROUND AND BUZZ HIM (THE WITNESS) AGAIN; HOWEVER, WHILE IN A LEFT BANK, THE PLANE'S LEFT WING HIT THE GROUND.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN82DA151
- Event ID
- 20020917X03171
- Case number
- DEN82DA151
- 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: 02e98aa3c467c967d04314ba2f84ac0f9511d28c5ab86de12ac327c133e43920; retrieved 2026-09-24T02:13:51.778Z.