- Date
- May 23, 1987, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Broomfield, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N89834Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870523015849A
- Case key
- 17231
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt had finished practicing touch and go landings on an unsupervised solo flt. During taxi to parking, a gust of wind lifted the left wing and the acft was pushed off the taxiway to the right. The nose gear dropped off a culvert and the right main gear went into a ditch. The acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89834
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282886
- Airframe hours
- 3,726
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Norson, Inc., doing business as Rainbow Aviation
- Registered owner
- Norloff Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 5, 1987 · 5 hours before
- Airport
- BJC · Jeffco
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 37 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N89834 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.