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| NTSB Identification: CHI98LA131. The docket is stored in the (offline) NTSB Imaging System. |
| Accident occurred Saturday, April 18, 1998 at CANTON, MI |
| Aircraft: Cessna 150J, registration: N50566 |
| Injuries: 2 Serious |
| Event: 20001211X09824 Status: Final Report Approved On Friday, March 31, 2000 |
| NTSB Preliminary Narrative (6120.19A) |
| On April 18, 1998, at 1830 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 150J, N50556, registered to a corporation, sustained substantial damage during an |
| off airport landing and post accident fire. The accident occurred about one mile south of the airport. The pilot said that there was a power |
| interruption prior to impact, and he initiated a forced landing in a residential area. The instructor and student received serious injuries. The |
| instructional 14 CFR Part 91 flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions. No flight plan was on file. The local flight originally departed |
| Willow Run Airport, at Ypsilanti, Michigan, exact time unknown, and was conducting full stop and taxi back landings and takeoffs at the nearby |
| Canton-Mettetal Airport. The instructor said that at the time of the accident they were returning to Willow Run. |
| The pilot said that they were conducting full stop landings and taxi backs for departure at Canton-Mettetal. He said that they were on their sixth |
| takeoff and had decided to return to Willow Run. He said that during the previous landings and takeoffs there was no problem with the airplane. |
| He said that the carburetor heat was used on all previous landings and removed during the taxi and takeoffs. He said that the airplane was |
| topped off with fuel prior to departure from Willow Run. He said that the airplane had been in operation a total of approximately 45 minutes at the |
| time of the accident. He said that while in climb the engine lost power, and he realized that a forced landing would have to be made in a |
| residential area. He said that about five to ten seconds prior to touchdown he lowered the flaps to full down. He said that at no time did he feel |
| that the engine power had returned. He did not recall the impact. |
| An examination of the airplane wreckage revealed that initial ground scars were on a residential street and coincided with the position and |
| damage to the left wingtip. The airplane continued into the boulevard where a mailbox was knocked out of the ground. The airplane continued in |
| a gradual turn to the left and there were three horizontal slashes in the concrete sidewalk consistent with propeller strikes. The airplane |
| continued forward coming to rest in a driveway. The landing gear was failed with the main landing gear bent aft. The fuselage was fractured |
| circumfrentially at the baggage compartment and the firewall was separated from the front of the fuselage with the nose bent down. An engine |
| fire started after the airplane came to rest. |
| When the airplane was removed from the accident site 18 gallons of fuel was removed from the airplane prior to transporting the wreckage. An |
| examination of the airplane revealed fuel was present in the fuel selector and fuel lines to the carburetor. There was thumb compression on all |
| four cylinders. Continuity was established through the flight and engine controls. There were no anomalies found that were attributed to other |
| than impact and fire damage. |
| One propeller blade was broken. The broken end was found about one city block away from the wreckage, in the front yard of a residence. |
| The piece displayed nicks and chordwise scratches. The outboard end of the blade was curled back. |
| NTSB Final Narrative (6120.4) |
| The aircraft was on an instructional flight and had just taken off from a stop-and-go landing. The instructor pilot reported that during climb there |
| was a power interruption prior to impact, and he initiated a forced landing in a residential area, and that at no time did he feel that the engine |
| power had returned. Subsequent to the accident, an examination of the airplane and engine failed to reveal any mechanical anomalies other |
| than those associated with the impact and post accident fire. He initiated a forced landing in a residential area. Ground scars related with the |
| initial impact were noted on a residential street. The aircraft then proceeded through a boulevard colliding with a mailbox and leaving horizontal |
| slashes in the concrete sidewalk consistent with propeller strikes. The aircraft then came to rest in a driveway with the main landing gear bent |
| aft. The propeller showed evidence of rotation with chordwise scratching and nicks. One blade of the propeller was broken off and was |
| located about one city block away from the wreckage. The blade had a curled tip and also evidence of chordwise scratching. |
| NTSB Probable Cause Narrative |
| The undetermined loss of power reported by the pilot. Contributing factors were the residential nature of the landing area and unsuitable landing |
| terrain. |
| Occurrences and Sequence of Events |
| Occurrence: 1, LOSS OF ENGINE POWER |
| Phase of Operation: TAKEOFF - INITIAL CLIMB |
| Sequence of Events for Occurrence Number: 1 |
| 1 ( Cause ) REASON FOR OCCURRENCE UNDETERMINED / / |
| Occurrence: 2, FORCED LANDING |
| Phase of Operation: DESCENT - EMERGENCY |
| Occurrence: 3, ON GROUND/WATER ENCOUNTER WITH TERRAIN/WATER |
| Phase of Operation: LANDING - ROLL |
| Sequence of Events for Occurrence Number: 3 |
| 1 ( Factor ) TERRAIN CONDITIONS / RESIDENTIAL AREA / (0) |
| 2 ( Factor ) UNSUITABLE TERRAIN OR TAKEOFF/LANDING/TAXI AREA / ENCOUNTERED / |
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