- Date
- January 21, 1991, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Erskine, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N95684Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14996
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the precautionary landing. A factor was the instructor pilot's inadequate supervision of the flight.
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 pilot said that while on a student solo cross-country flight, she encountered snow showers, turbulence and marginal visibility. A 180 degree turn was initiated towards a nearby airport, but after losing altitude in the turn, and fighting the turbulence, a precautionary landing was attempted on a rural road. Directional control was lost during the landing roll and the airplane collided with a snowbank and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95684
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285977
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- University Of North Dakota
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- BJI · Bemidji, MN
- Destination
- GFK · Grand Forks, ND
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 4° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast