- Date
- November 8, 1988, 18:48 local (22:48 UTC)
- Place
- Nenana, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48943Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19881108051509A
- Case key
- 5145
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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 instructor pilot was demonstrating a soft-field landing to his student pilot when he flared the airplane too high, and allowed the crosswind to carry the airplane off the left side of the runway where it hit a runway light and a snow berm, then nosed over. The instructor pilot stated that "it was a simple case of pilot error".
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48943
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283391
- Airframe hours
- 3,157
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Eielson Afb Aero Club
- Registered owner
- William H Cleveland
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 16, 1988 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- EIL · Eielson Afb, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ENN · Nenana, runway 3, 5,000 × 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
- 50
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,427 total · 500 in this make and model · 1,288 as pilot in command · 106 in the last 90 days · 58 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
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 N48943 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.