- Date
- March 25, 1982, 17:43 local (23:43 UTC)
- Place
- New Orleans, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6245QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820325005819A
- Case key
- 71982
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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 pilot was doing touch and go landings on runway 36. The wind was 290 degrees at 10 KTS. During a landing roll the student lost control and departed the left side of the runway. The aircraft sank into the mud and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6245Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285209
- Airframe hours
- 130
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gregory
- Registered owner
- New Orleans Aviation, Inc.
- Departed
- NEW · New Orleans, LA
- Destination
- NEW · New Orleans, LA
- Airport
- NEW · Lakefront, runway 36, 3,700 × 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
- 22
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 7 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 167 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.