- Date
- November 24, 1982, 11:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Rockford, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6348BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821124060119A
- Case key
- 72414
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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
The student pilot with his instructor on board were performing touch and go landings. After the third takeoff the engine quit at approximately 150 ft AGL. The pilot made an emergency landing between the two runways at Rockford. Examination of the engine revealed no reason for preimpact malfunction of failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6348B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283924
- Airframe hours
- 1,949
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eastern Aviation
- Departed
- RFD · Rockford, IL
- Destination
- RFD · Rockford, IL
- Airport
- RFD · Rockford, runway 30, 4,100 × 80 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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,750 total · 1,100 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command · 236 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RFD
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.