- Date
- June 18, 1991, 10:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Murfreesboro, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25362Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910618022699A
- Case key
- 8423
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Probable cause
Student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 pilot was on his first solo flight. He performed two stop-and-go landings with no problems noted. On his third landing, he lost directional control of the airplane on the landing roll. He was unable to keep the airplane on the runway surface, and it departed the runway to the left. The airplane then collided with a ditch, resulting in the substantial damage. The pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane. He had logged only 10 hours total time, with 7 hours in the Cessna 152.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25362
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280616
- Airframe hours
- 5,563
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- International Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Cobb, J. Mark
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 14, 1991 · 58 hours before
- Airport
- MBT · Murfreesboro Municipal, runway 36, 3,900 × 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10 total · 7 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 82 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 22 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.