- Date
- August 31, 1999, 22:00 local (Sep 1, 1999, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Baker, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5377LCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 10, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19990831028479A
- Case key
- 47223
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Probable cause
The flight instructor misjudged his altitude and airspeed. A factor was trees.
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 and flight instructor were conducting a night cross-country flight. According to the flight instructor, on the return flight from Greenville, Alabama, to Baker, Florida, a patterned approach was flown to runway 27. He reported that while on final approach, he realized they were too high and advised the student pilot to execute a go-around. The second approach was similar to the first and another go-around was executed. On the third attempt, the flight instructor landed on the last third of the runway, ran off the end, and collided with trees and shrubs. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilot.
Factual narrative
On August 31, 1999, at 2200 central daylight time, a Cessna 152, N5377L, landed long and ran off the departure end of runway 27, at a grass airstrip in Baker, Florida. The flight was operated by the flight instructor under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and visual flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident and no flight plan was filed for the cross-country flight. The student pilot and flight instructor were not injured and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The flight departed Greenville, Alabama, at 2000.
The student pilot and flight instructor were conducting a night cross-country flight. According to the flight instructor, on the return flight from Greenville, Alabama, to Baker, Florida, a patterned approach was flown to runway 27. He reported that while on final approach, he realized they were too high and advised the student pilot to execute a go-around. The second approach was similar to the first and another go-around was executed. On the third attempt, the flight instructor landed on the last third of the runway, ran off the end, and collided with trees and shrubs.
No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5377L
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284306
- Airframe hours
- 8,728
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Arnie Odegaard & Assoc., Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 26, 1999 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- PRN · Greenville, AL
- Airport
- 18FD · Baker, runway 27, 3,200 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 32
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 330 total · 147 in this make and model · 262 as pilot in command · 98 in the last 90 days · 82 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 70° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CEW, 8 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.