- Date
- November 14, 1989, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Front Royal, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96096Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891114045939A
- Case key
- 11568
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Probable cause
Failure of the instructor pilot (CFI) to maintain proper runway alignment with the runway. Contributing factors were: the student pilot's high and fast approach, the cfi's delay in initiating remedial action, the crosswind, and the runwaylight.
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 instructor (CFI) rprtd the student was high & fast on final apch, so he took control of the acft, reduced power & corrected for a x-wind. He rprtd that a gust of wind drifted the acft to the right of the rwy. He applied power & left rudder to correct the situation; however, the acft contacted a rwy light & crossed over the rwy. Subsequently, it contacted the ground in a nose low attitude & was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96096
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15286007
- Airframe hours
- 1,281
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Randolf Macon Academy
- Registered owner
- Randolph Macon Academy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 30, 1989 · 9 hours before
- Destination
- FRR
- Airport
- FRR · Warren County, runway 27, 3,000 × 50 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 467 total · 296 in this make and model · 405 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRB, 31 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.