- Date
- May 22, 1984, 16:22 local (21:22 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, AL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N46910Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840522018459A
- Case key
- 6466
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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
According to the instructor (CFI), he & the student were practicing base-to-final turns as they were returning to the arpt. He reported that the acft was flown at about 60 KTS with 20 deg of flaps at appx 800 ft AGL. He stated that the student steepened the bank of a turn, entered an unintentional accelerated stall/spin, then pulled the yoke rearward & held on. The CFI yelled 'let go' & the student released the controls; however, during the recovery, the acft struck the tops of trees & crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46910
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283140
- Airframe hours
- 2,029
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gold Dust Flying Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 12, 1983 · 2 hours before
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 2,953 total · 1,428 in this make and model · 229 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANB, 20 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.