- Date
- October 6, 1987, 10:20 local (16:20 UTC)
- Place
- Tremonton, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7572BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871006058859A
- Case key
- 17398
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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 student plt flew to the first stop on his cross country training flight. He misread the windsock and landed downwind on runway 17. After touchdown the pilot lost control of the aircraft and taxied off the left side of the runway, hit a fence and a tree before coming to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7572B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A1520771
- Airframe hours
- 2,080
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L1C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Professional Flight Services
- Registered owner
- Professional Flight Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 1987 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- SLC · Salt Lake City, UT
- Destination
- SLC
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- U27 · Tremonton, runway 17, 3,445 × 75 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22 total · 22 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.