- Date
- February 12, 1983, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- St. Cloud, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N93214Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830212007599A
- Case key
- 12087
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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.
Undershoot
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Throttle/power control - delayedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Nose over
Analysis
During final the acft started to drift & the rate of descent increased. The plt was late in adding power & the acft touched down 75 ft short of the rwy in 20 inches of snow & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93214
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285444
- Airframe hours
- 435
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- St. Cloud Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 2, 1982 · 77 hours before
- Airport
- STC · St. Cloud, runway 23, 3,000 × 100 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
- 65
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point 28 °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.