- Date
- September 6, 1986, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dwight, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N24980Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860906044829A
- Case key
- 13520
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 tail of the aircraft struck the cab of a truck while on final approach. The CFI stated that, as they were passing over the road at the approach end of the runway, the aircraft entered a downdraft and the empennage struck the truck which was approaching from the left.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24980
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280489
- Airframe hours
- 1,899
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Frankfort Aviation Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 5, 1986 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- C18 · Frankfort, IL
- Destination
- DTG · Dwight, IL
- Airport
- DTG · Dwight, runway 27, 2,368 × 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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17,830 total · 4,008 in this make and model · 14,850 as pilot in command · 350 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BMI, 48 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.