- Date
- October 24, 1985, 13:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cahokia, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4965QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851024076369A
- Case key
- 13373
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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 was practicing touch and go landings in preparation for a solo cross country. The pilot was compensating for a crosswind when he landed the aircraft on its nose resulting in substantial damage to the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4965Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285066
- Airframe hours
- 1,861
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Parks College
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 5, 1985 · 87 hours before
- Airport
- CPS · Bi-State Parks, runway 30, 5,500 × 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 50 total · 50 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CPS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.