- Date
- February 2, 1985, 16:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Corsicana, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N68422Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850202002329A
- Case key
- 21668
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Analysis
The student plt was on a x-country flt with intermediate stops at Corsicana & terrell, TX. At Corsicana, he initiated a touch & go landing on a partially ice covered rwy. After he applied power to takeoff, the acft began to swerve. The student stated that the left wheel caught a snowbank which pulled him to the left & that he had failed to use enough rudder to correct the situation. After departing the rwy, the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68422
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282291
- Airframe hours
- 1,192
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tarrant Aero Assoc.
- Registered owner
- Thurmond Rucker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 30, 1984 · 99 hours before
- Departed
- F54 · Arlington, TX
- Airport
- CRS · Corsicana, runway 32, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
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- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 41 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAL, 50 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N68422 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.