- Date
- April 7, 1987, 18:15 local (Apr 8, 1987, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bountiful, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N4970BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870407008709A
- Case key
- 17195
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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 stud plt was practicing stalls about 10 n of arpt. During recovery from a stall the eng began to run rough. The plt said he advanced throttle, applied carb heat, and tried to adjust mixture. The eng continued to run rough and lose pwr and the plt returned to the arpt. The acft was at about 200 ft upon arrival at the arpt and the plt attempted to align with rwy 16, which was the downwind rwy. Upon approaching rwy 16 the plt noted another acft landing in the opposite direction and turned to parallel the rwy. The acft continued to descend due to low pwr and stalled and crashed from about 20 ft AGL near midfield. Examination of the wreckage revealed that the mixture control was not in the full in position. Further examination of the wreckage and a test run of the eng did not reveal evidence of a pre-accident mechanical failure or deficiency.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4970B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283731
- Airframe hours
- 4,048
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skypark Aviation
- Registered owner
- Hal B Young
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 2, 1987 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- BTF
- Airport
- BTF · Salt Lake Skypark, runway 24, 4,700 × 60 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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.