- Date
- August 16, 1992, 14:05 local (18:05 UTC)
- Place
- Houghton Lake, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N68741Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920816031399A
- Case key
- 15523
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Probable cause
A premature lift-off.
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 flight instructor was demonstrating a soft field takeoff to student. The airplane became airborne but would not climb or accelerate out of ground effect. The instructor aborted the takeoff, but the airplane departed the end of the runway and nosed over in a blueberry bog.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68741
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282350
- Airframe hours
- 5,360
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Oakland Southwest Aviation
- Registered owner
- Oakland Southwest Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 30, 1992 · 82 hours before
- Departed
- TVC · Traverse City, MI
- Destination
- Y47
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HTL · Roscommon County, runway 18, 2,425 × 80 ft, grass/turf
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
- 61
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 7,475 total · 1,543 in this make and model · 5,446 as pilot in command · 154 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HTL, 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.
Other investigations on N68741 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.