- Date
- April 10, 1985, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Arlington, TX
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N49831Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850410011909A
- Case key
- 21538
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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
Acft on traffic patrol watch was observed for several minutes before crash at low altitude doing slow flt and flying erratic prior to acft stalling ans spinning into apt building no evidence of pre-impact failure or malfunction of the acft was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49831
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281347
- Airframe hours
- 3,929
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Dynamics
- Registered owner
- David E. Arledge
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 16, 1985 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- DAL · Dallas, TX
- Airport
- Unknown
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 646 total · 191 in this make and model · 516 as pilot in command · 109 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 15 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.