ERA12WA426 · Cessna 150M
Cessna 150M · Accident
From Cibao International Airport (MDST) to Cibao International Airport (MDST)
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Event
- NTSB case
- ERA12WA426
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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 150M
- 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
- HI-561
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Narrative disagrees
- From Cibao International Airport (MDST), Santiago de losTo Cibao International Airport (MDST), Santiago de los
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe 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
- Not recorded
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On June 12, 2012, about 2140 universal coordinated time, a Cessna 150M, Dominican Republic registration HI-561, was substantially damaged during a forced landing following a propeller tip separation. The foreign certificated pilots received minor injuries. The local instructional flight departed Santiago International Airport (MDST), Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
According to the investigator-in-charge, the airplane was on a routine training flight when the tip of one propeller blade separated from the propeller. During the subsequent forced landing, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the airframe.
The propeller was removed from the engine and shipped to the Federal Aviation Administration in Wichita, Kansas, for examination.
The investigation is under the direction of the Government of the Dominican Republic.
For further information contact:
Comisión Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación "CIAA" Junta de Aviación Civil Deputy Director of Operations- Aviation Accident Investigation Commission AAIC
Office: 809-689-4167 ext. 266
This report is for informational purposes, and contains only information that was released by the Government of the Dominican Republic.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA12WA426
- Event ID
- 20120702X44133
- Case number
- ERA12WA426
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: bb50814a7dd2dd2c4e71945c6bddbbeb0bfff8815092d3ab04f549e5434ae0b7; retrieved 2026-09-15T18:41:49.938Z.