- Date
- October 5, 1982, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lawsing, IL
- Coordinates
- 42.7301, -84.5495 (estimated)
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N63627Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 5, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821005051179A
- Case key
- 71394
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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
On landing roll the student pilot inadvertently added power, ran off the end of the runway and into a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63627
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077440
- Airframe hours
- 2,725
- Engine
- Continental O-200H, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviation Mgmt. Corporation
- Registered owner
- Walter Szeremeta
- Departed
- 3HA · Lawsing, IL
- Destination
- 3HA · Lawsing, IL
- Airport
- 3HA · Lawsing Municipal, runway 9, 2,400 × 50 ft, macadam
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 39 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.