- Date
- January 17, 1993, 15:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Minneapolis, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N48863Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930117000639A
- Case key
- 15651
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during a takeoff ground run.
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 accident airplane collided with a snowbank and nosed over while accelerating to liftoff from a touch and go landing. The student pilot described how he lost directional control when the airplane encountered a patch of ice on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48863
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281011
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Anoka Flight Training Inc.
- Registered owner
- Anoka Flight Training Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- ANE · Anoka County, runway 35, 4,856 × 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16 total · 16 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIC, 10 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 N48863 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.