- Date
- July 12, 2022, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49189Cessna 152
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220712012369A
- Case key
- 105552
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot's loss of directional control while landing, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings.
Analysis
The pilot was landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane in light crosswind conditions. He reported that just before touchdown the airplane began to settle. He added power and after a hard three-point landing the airplane veered left. He corrected back to centerline; however, the airplane went right and then left again and exited the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the empennage and right horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49189
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281182
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 3,614.1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 26, 2022
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HOC · Highland County, runway 23, 3,520 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 20, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 35 in this make and model · 2,400 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.61 inHg
- Observed at
- ILN, 18 nm away
- METAR
- KILN 012054Z AUTO 11005KT 6SM -RA BR BKN075 OVC090 12/11 A2961 RMK AO2 PRESFR SLP031 P0005 60040 T01170111 56011
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 8, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB in all.
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 N49189 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.