- Date
- April 7, 1982, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pontiac, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66944Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820407015559A
- Case key
- 72278
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While the student pilot was on his fifth touch and go pattern, the plane veered to the left after touchdown. The left main gear then encountered snow and pulled the aircraft further left into a snowbank. The student claimed that the owners had advised him to apply brakes after takeoff to correct a shimmy that occurred after lift-off. The student believed that this caused the brake to lock. However, the brake was not locked when the plane was removed from the snowbank, and it operated normally when checked. There was a right quartering headwind at 8 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66944
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281679
- Airframe hours
- 638
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air-One
- Registered owner
- Pierce E. Woodworth
- Departed
- PTK · Pontiac, MI
- Destination
- PTK · Pontiac, MI
- Airport
- PTK · Oakland-Pontiac Airport, runway 27R, 3,250 × 75 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 23 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Temperature
- 117 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N66944 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.