WPR26LA150 · Cessna 150G
Cessna 150G · Accident: loss of engine power (total) while maneuvering
From Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR26LA150
- 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
- Ongoing
- 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 150G
- 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
- N4714X
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT), Phoenix, AZTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 60 years (built 1966)
- 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
- 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
- Loss of engine power (total)
- 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 April 8, 2026, about 1033 mountain standard time, a Cessna 150G, N4714X, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Phoenix, Arizona. The flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. The airplane was being operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight.
A review of preliminary ADS-B data revealed that after departure the airplane flew north about 10 miles to a practice area where it performed several maneuvers. About 30 minutes into the 33-minute flight, the airplane reached an altitude of 4,100 ft mean sea level (msl) and shortly after it began a gradual descent to ground level.
According to the flight instructor, the flight departed Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT), Phoenix, Arizona, for flight training. After arriving at the practice area, they performed slow flight and steep turn maneuvers. They subsequently climbed to about 4,000 ft msl where they performed power-off stall maneuvers. When the student pilot reapplied power the engine did not respond. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and looked for a place to land. He attempted restart procedures and engaged the starter multiple times without success. The flight instructor initiated a forced landing to brush covered terrain. During the landing roll, the airplane encountered uneven terrain and nosed over. The fuselage, vertical stabilizer, rudder and wings were substantially damaged.
During the recovery of the wreckage, 4 gallons of fuel were removed from the left wing tank and 9 gallons was removed from the right wing tank.
The airplane was retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR26LA150
- Event ID
- 20260408202781
- Case number
- WPR26LA150
- 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.
- 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: b7d0dd8946ae651dfa2e015c80cc10b02a5483f09bd85fa36a2940b6dbdca824; retrieved 2026-09-16T21:11:50.844Z.