Why did the wings on this Cessna 150 separate from the aircraft in flight?
There are three ways to do that; overspeed the airframe, load to many G’s or fail to have thorough annual inspections done. Since both wings appear to have failed, my guess would have to be with one of the first two. Some models of the 150 are not approved for spins, the M model that a buddy of mine owned comes to mind, and some weren’t approved for spins with full fuel, max gross weight or CG within the envelope but too far forward or aft. Private pilot training typically tries to teach enough to fledgling, VFR pilots if they inadvertantly find themselves in IFR conditions. It doesn’t teach much more than that. Reading the report, which states that the wings were sheared away in an upward direction, and showed signs of being over stressed. The Pilot’s report to ATC of suspecting he was inverted leads the reader to believe that he wasn’t paying sufficient attention to the pumpkin, his turn coordinator or whiskey compass. The low time, VFR pilot appears to have flown boldly into clouds
