Accident · 1999-09-30

What the record says

Event date

1999-09-30

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

Cessna 150F (N8092S)

Operating rule

Part 91

Operator

operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

The instructor pilot's inadequate in-flight decision making, which resulted in the continued flight with a disabled generator and subsequent total failure of the electrical system. Factors were the installation of the inadequate generator fuse by unknown person(s), the instructor's failure to refuel the airplane prior to the flight, and the dark night conditions.

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.