- Date
- July 22, 1984, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Friendswood, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64896Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840722034339A
- Case key
- 21407
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Touch-and-go - initiated
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
Lack of total experienceFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Nose over
Analysis
During a touch-&-go landing, the plt lost directional control of the acft after he applied power to takeoff again. The acft went off the left side of the rwy, hit a ditch & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64896
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281462
- Airframe hours
- 1,512
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- H & H Aviation
- Registered owner
- D. Henderson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- T02 · Clover, runway 14R, 4,300 × 70 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HOU, 8 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.