- Date
- October 14, 1990, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Crookston, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7385WCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901014047349A
- Case key
- 14941
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Probable cause
A poorly planned approach, and failure to take remedial action by the pilot.
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
Pilot landed long on 3,099 foot grass runway. No aborted landing attempt was made. Aircraft departed end of runway, and nosed-over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7385W
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284502
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Witold S. Krasniewski
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- FSE · Fosston, MN
- Airport
- CKN · Crookston Muni, runway 24, 3,099 × 202 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 105 total · 91 in this make and model · 43 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GFK, 23 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 N7385W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.