- Date
- March 3, 1988, 20:13 local (Mar 4, 1988, 00:13 UTC)
- Place
- Chugiak, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96082Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880303004469A
- Case key
- 4990
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The flight instructor was giving dual instruction to a student pilot on night landings. On the sixth touch-and-go landing, the instructor turned the landing light off for a no-light landing. The student landed the aircraft to the right of centerline, and before a correction could be made towards the center of the runway, the airplane struck deep, unplowed snow about four feet inside the runway perimeter lights and nosed-down. The instructor and student were both unaware that the runway had not been completely plowed. An official flight publication lists the airport as unattended and unmonitored, and recommends a visual inspection prior to landing. The instructor recommended that no-light landings should be attempted only under ideal runway/weather conditions.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96082
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15286004
- Airframe hours
- 1,900
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Elmendorf Aero Club
- Registered owner
- John W. Bozarth
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 2, 1988 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- EDF · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Z15 · Birchwood, runway 19, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,355 total · 765 in this make and model · 1,257 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N96082 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.