- Date
- January 11, 1991, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- St. Cloud, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4872BCessna 152 II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910111000429A
- Case key
- 14985
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during acceleration for takeoff.
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
A solo student pilot practicing touch-and-go landings, applied power for takeoff and the airplane drifted left. The pilot reduced power to idle and applied right rudder, but the airplane continued left off the runway. Departing the runway, the airplane rolled into snow cover and nosed over. No mechanical malfunction was reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4872B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152 II
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283686
- Airframe hours
- 4,246
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- M & S Aircraft Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 4, 1990 · 1,580 hours before
- Airport
- STC · St. Cloud Municipal, runway 13, 5,200 × 100 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
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 23 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STC, 1 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.