- Date
- December 17, 1992, 14:58 local (19:58 UTC)
- Place
- Atlanta, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N65479Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921217053049A
- Case key
- 8713
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
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 had flown to a local airport to conduct touch & go landing practice. He reported that on the third landing the airplane veered left, off of the runway, and struck a runway sign. According to him the left brake had locked up. An examination of the airplane after the accident revealed that the right tire was flat, because of the collision with the sign. There were no flat spots on the left tire, no evidence of heat discoloration on the left brake disc, & the left brake was found to operate normally.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65479
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281577
- Airframe hours
- 2,847
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ritchie, Tony W.
- Registered owner
- Ritchie, Tony W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 26, 1992 · 211 hours before
- Departed
- PDK · Chamblee, GA
- Destination
- FTY
- Airport
- FTY · Fulton Co. Brown Fld, runway 32, 4,158 × 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 73 total · 73 in this make and model · 23 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTY, 1 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.