- Date
- May 10, 1983, 19:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Smithfield, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N69057Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830510018659A
- Case key
- 12169
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt had been practicing touch-and-go landings. On about the 6th or 7th touch-and-go, he applied power to takeoff when a group of deer crossed the rwy. He steered to the left to avoid the animals, went off the rwy, hit a large mound of dirt, then the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69057
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282466
- Airframe hours
- 1,973
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ohio Valley Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Unknown · June 2, 1982 · 1,946 hours before
- Departed
- HLG · Wheeling, WV
- Airport
- 44D · Smithfield, runway 33, 3,500 × 65 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,247 total · 450 in this make and model · 2,149 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 330° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HLG, 10 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.