The pilot was relocating the recently-purchased Cessna 150J, departing on the three-hour flight with full fuel tanks, which provided an endurance of about five hours.
During the descent to the airport in Bixby, Oklahoma, he advanced the mixture control to full rich, applied carburetor heat, and began to retard the throttle. The engine then suddenly experienced a total loss of power. [Read more…]
The airline transport pilot and commercial copilot were conducting a mosquito abatement application flight near Slidell, Louisiana.
Although flight controls were installed in both positions, the pilot typically operated the Beech 65.
During a night, visual approach to landing at their home airfield, the airplane was on the left base leg and overshot the runway’s extended centerline and collided with 80′ power transmission towers and then hit terrain. Both men on board were killed in the crash. [Read more…]
The pilot of the tailwheel equipped Piper PA-18 reported that during the landing roll on a sandbar in Palmer, Alaska, as the sand transitioned from dry sand to wet sand, he applied brakes and the airplane nosed over. [Read more…]
The private pilot and a passenger departed for a personal flight in a Cessna 172 to an island airport located on top of a plateau near Avalon, California.
While on final approach for landing, the airplane descended below the elevation of the runway threshold. The pilot attempted to conduct a go-around, but was unable to prevent a collision with the rising terrain. Both souls on board were seriously injured in the crash. [Read more…]
The pilot reported during day visual meteorological conditions, he struck a goose at an altitude of about 2,000′ mean sea level while in cruise flight.
The Cessna 182’s wind screen was shattered after the impact. [Read more…]
The airline transport pilot/owner was conducting a personal cross-country flight in the Piper Sport LSA.
The pilot reported that, after the main landing gear touched down at the airport in Mansfield, Ohio, he eased the backpressure on the control stick and that the nose landing gear (NLG) then separated from the airplane. [Read more…]
While in cruise flight, the private pilot experienced a vibration and noise that seemed to be originating from the Cirrus SR20’s engine.
He reported that the engine RPM became erratic, and the airplane became harder to control due to the unusual vibration.
As he proceeded to the closest airport for a precautionary landing, the engine “seemed to be starting and stopping” or sputtering. [Read more…]
The pilot was landing the de Havilland DHC 6 Twin Otter in gusty crosswind conditions following a parachute jump flight, reporting that the gusty conditions had persisted for the previous 10 skydiving flights that day.
During the landing roll, when the nose wheel touched down at the airport in Fentress, Texas, the airplane became “unstable” and veered to the left. [Read more…]
The flight instructor was demonstrating a takeoff to the student pilot in the tailwheel-equipped Bellanca 7GCBC. During the takeoff from the airport in Midlothian, Texas, the instructor was flying the airplane and was seated in the rear seat, with the student pilot observing and following along on the flight controls in the front seat.
The instructor stated that, as the airplane lifted off the runway, he could not move the control stick. The airplane continued to climb in an increasingly nose-high pitch attitude, and the instructor said his efforts to apply forward pressure on the control stick had “no effect.”
The airplane subsequently experienced an aerodynamic stall and hit the ground. The student died in the crash, while the instructor was injured. [Read more…]
According to the student pilot, during landing on a solo flight at the airport in Payson, Arizona, the Cessna 172 porpoised.
After landing he repositioned the airplane, but prior to takeoff, a fellow pilot, who witnessed the porpoise, contacted him on the VHF radio, and informed him that he should have the airplane checked out before attempting to takeoff. The student pilot taxied to the parking area and the airport manager and airframe and powerplant mechanic inspected the airplane. [Read more…]
