Cessna 150 N5679G

Summary

On 2 June 2016 at about 01:46 local time, a Cessna 150 registered N5679G, operated by LM Air Patrol Service, Inc., was involved in an accident near Penwell, Texas, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

2 June 2016 at 01:46

Classification

Accident

Location

Penwell, Texas, United States

Coordinates

31.7478, -102.5481

Aircraft

Cessna 150

Registration

N5679G

Category

Airplane

Year built

1969

Engines

1

Operator

LM Air Patrol Service, Inc.

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Odessa → Penwell

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

CEN16LA203

1 person died.

The pilot’s intentional flight into a silo.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The commercial pilot telephoned his wife from his car and told her he was en route to his company's airplane hangar and was going to kill himself. She alerted her husband's employer, who then alerted the police department. The pilot took the airplane without the company's permission and then flew it into a 138-ft-tall silo. The autopsy report cited the manner of death as being "consistent with suicide."

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.