- Date
- January 20, 1982, 15:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Midland, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5350MCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820120001419A
- Case key
- 71693
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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
During the student's first supervised solo flight he landed normally but lost control prior to adding power for a touch and go landing. The aircraft ran off the runway and collided with a pile of gravel coming to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5350M
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 84553
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Basin Avn. Inc.
- Registered owner
- Basin Avn. Inc.
- Departed
- MDD · Midland, TX
- Destination
- MDD · Midland, TX
- Airport
- MDD · Midland Airpark, runway 25, 5,810 × 150 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
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 10 in this make and model · 13 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 149 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MAF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.