- Date
- December 17, 1983, 11:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Peoria, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48544Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831217061549A
- Case key
- 12506
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Touch-and-go - initiated
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - snow coveredFactor
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - icyFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
The student plt elected to make a touch & go landing on a rwy covered with loose snow & patches of ice. He reported that when he added power during his 1st touch & go, the acft veered to the left & subsequently collided with a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48544
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283348
- Airframe hours
- 601
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harold R. Camden
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · November 15, 1983 · 11 hours before
- Airport
- 3MY · Mt. Hawley, runway 35, 2,800 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 33 total · 3 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIA, 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.