- Date
- January 17, 1983, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Portsmouth, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N150RFCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830117038859A
- Case key
- 5997
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt lost directional during the second solo landing & ran off the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N150RF
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15059115
- Airframe hours
- 4,183
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Civil Air Patrol
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 10, 1982 · 11 hours before
- Airport
- PVG · Hampton Roads, runway 28, 4,000 × 70 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORF, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.