Cessna 150L N6928G
15 April 2010 · Princeville, Oregon, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 15 April 2010 at about 15:30 local time, a Cessna 150L registered N6928G, operated by David L Dow, was involved in an accident near Princeville, Oregon, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 15:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Princeville, Oregon, United States
- Nearest airport
- Prineville (S39)
- Coordinates
- 44.2869, -120.9039
- Aircraft
- Cessna 150L
- Registration
- N6928G
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- David L Dow
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Princeville → Princeville
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- WPR10CA206
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to ensure that the parking brake was set prior to hand-starting the engine.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
After preflight, the pilot set the parking brake, primed the engine, and got out to hand-start the engine with the propeller. No one was on board to help hold the brakes. He turned the propeller, and the engine started. He entered the cabin, and placed his feet on the rudder pedals. The engine stopped, so he exited the airplane and hand-propped it again. The engine started and air from the propeller blew the entry door shut. The airplane started to move forward and he was not able to reenter the airplane to apply the brakes. The left wing collided with a hangar about 100 feet away, which spun the nose into the hangar. The left wing was pushed back into the fuselage, and both sustained substantial damage. The pilot said that he did not recheck the parking brake after placing his feet on the controls, and thought that the accident might have been prevented if he had gone back to step one of his hand-start checklist.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Cessna 150 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jul 2010 | Cessna 150M | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States | East Tennessee Pilots Club | No injuries | - |
| 7 Mar 2010 | Cessna 150H | New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 2 Sep 2010 | Cessna 150L | Boone, Iowa, United States | Drake Aerial Enterprises LLC DBA | Fatal | 1 |
| 4 Sep 2010 | Cessna 150H | DeLand, Florida, United States | - | Fatal | 2 |
| 1 Jan 2010 | Cessna 150G | Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States | Frattone Clifford T | No injuries | - |
| 21 Jun 2010 | Cessna 150G | Jasper, Tennessee, United States | - | No injuries | - |
All 10,427 records for this type
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