- Date
- December 22, 1985, 12:35 local (17:35 UTC)
- Place
- Stevensville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6147QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11240
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
After landing at the bay bridge airport, the CFI got out of the aircraft and told the student-pilot to take it around the pattern. The aircraft was taxied to runway 28 and while waiting for other traffic to depart the CFI called over UNICOM that the landing direction had switched. The student-pilot then taxied to the other end of the runway and was the first aircraft to depart in the opposite direction. The aircraft remained in the pattern and while on short final was observed drifting to the left. The CFI stated that there was about a 10 knot crosswind and that the approach looked good up until the last few feet above the runway when a gust of wind appeared to blow the aircraft off to the left. He added that the aircraft pitched up and banked to the left before nosing down into trees north of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6147Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285170
- Airframe hours
- 2,357
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bwi Leasing Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 18, 1985 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- W29 · Bay Bridge, runway 10, 2,900 × 150 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 23 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F