- Date
- July 9, 1993, 19:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Cuddy, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46116Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930709023029A
- Case key
- 11951
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during flare/touchdown. The proximity of the ravine and trees to the runway was a related factor.
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
During the landing flare over runway 31, the airplane started to drift to right of the runway centerline. The student pilot stated that she tried to correct for the drift and lost control of the airplane. The airplane departed the left side of the runway and rolled down an embankment into a wooded ravine. The reported winds were coming from a heading of 240 degrees at a velocity of 5 knots. The pilot said that this flight was her second supervised solo and at the time of the accident she had a total of 41 flight hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46116
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1528300
- Airframe hours
- 4,850
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pegasus Aviation
- Registered owner
- Prion Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 6, 1993 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- 8G4
- Destination
- 8G4
- Airport
- AG4 · Pittsburgh Metro, runway 31, 4,985 × 70 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AGC, 20 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.