- Date
- February 20, 1991, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Newark, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N116CFCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910220002869A
- Case key
- 15013
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's poor preflight planning and improper weather evaluation.
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 aircraft attempted to depart on a wet turf runway with a tailwind. The pilot elected to abort the takeoff and during the landing roll impacted a fence and a ditch. A weather reporting station 17 miles to the northeast of the accident, 45 minutes prior to the event, reported the wind at 230 degrees at 14 knots. The departure runway was 36.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N116CF
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1528020A
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cushing, doing business as Flight School
- Registered owner
- Flying Cleasing
- Destination
- C33 · Mouroe, WI
- Airport
- 0C8 · Cushing, runway 36, 2,831 × 180 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 23
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 112 total · 65 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ARR, 17 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.