- Date
- January 8, 1990, 11:16 local (16:16 UTC)
- Place
- Rochester, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6141QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900108002149A
- Case key
- 14616
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control and/or properly compensate for the wind conditions. Factors related to the accident were: the unfavorable wind conditions and the ditch.
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 takeoffs and landings. He was on the takeoff roll when he encountered a crosswind & lost directional control. The aircraft went off the left side of the runway, crossed a taxiway, ran into a ditch & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6141Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285164
- Airframe hours
- 2,399
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skyways, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Skyways, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 10, 1989 · 32 hours before
- Airport
- RCR · Rochester, runway 29, 3,200 × 60 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16 total · 16 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GUS, 24 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.
Other investigations on N6141Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.