- Date
- December 26, 1990, 16:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Plymouth, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N67401Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901226056159A
- Case key
- 14975
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command (CFI)'s inadequate supervision of the dual student.
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 was operating the controls on final. The instructor became aware that the aircraft was not aligned with the centerline of the runway. He took control, but was unable to arrest the high sink rate prior to impact with a snowbank by the left main landing gear. The aircraft subsequently nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67401
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281816
- Engine
- Lycoming O-234-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Eisenhart, Christopher D.
- Registered owner
- Eisenhart, Christopher D
- Departed
- 1D2
- Airport
- 1D2 · Plymouth, runway 18, 2,550 × 50 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
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- YIP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.