- Date
- October 21, 1987, 14:22 local (18:22 UTC)
- Place
- Conway, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N94126Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871021061849A
- Case key
- 7665
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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 student plt was performing a normal landing with a crosswind from the left. The acft was drifting to the right at touchdown and was partially off the rwy to the right. The plt attempted to use the brakes and keep the acft's ground track parallel with the rwy, however it continued to skid to the right. The acft's nosewheel dropped into a ditch and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94126
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285602
- Airframe hours
- 2,789
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- North American Inst. Of Aviat.
- Registered owner
- N. America Inst. Of Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 12, 1987 · 12 hours before
- Airport
- HYW · Conway Harry County, runway 4, 4,400 × 75 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 48 in this make and model · 17 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRE, 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.