- Date
- June 2, 1990, 11:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Troy, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67727Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900602018439A
- Case key
- 14684
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Probable cause
Student pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing in a crosswind. The student's lack of flight experience and the crosswind were factors.
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. The flight instructor was on board the aircraft for the first three lanidngs, then he approved the student for supervised solo pattern work and deplaned. The student stated that his first three or four solo landings were successful, but 'on my fifth...my approach was not very good, and...I did not compensate correctly for the crosswind.' The aircraft skidded off the left side of the runway and nosed down in the grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67727
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285306
- Airframe hours
- 4,098
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Big Beaver Aircraft, Inc,
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 28, 1990 · 98 hours before
- Airport
- 3BB · Big Beaver Airport, runway 27, 2,400 × 40 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PTK, 15 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.