- Date
- July 19, 1990, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lansing, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5538PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900719030039A
- Case key
- 14712
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Probable cause
The instructor's inability to control the airplane during its landing roll.
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
During final approach the airplane encountered heavy rain from a thunderstorm. The airplane touched down left of the sod runway's centerline. The CFI made an improper correction to re-establish runway centerline position. The airplane left the runway and collided with the lip of an intersecting runway's edge. The airplane skidded to a stop in a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5538P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284971
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviation Management Corp.
- Registered owner
- Aircraft Six
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 21, 1990
- Airport
- 3HA · Lansing Municipal, runway 36, 2,322 × 77 ft, grass/turf
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
- 22
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 700 total · 60 in this make and model · 600 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.