- Date
- December 2, 1990, 12:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Muskegon, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7321BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901202052319A
- Case key
- 14961
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Probable cause
Directional control not maintained by the PIC.
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
While practicing touch and go ldgs, during the student plts second solo flight, dirctional control was lost. The acft veered off the runway, cartwheeled, then came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7321B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1520743
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tulip City Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- MKG
- Airport
- MKG · Muskegon, runway 6, 6,501 × 150 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 17 total · 16 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MKG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.