- Date
- September 21, 1985, 10:05 local (15:05 UTC)
- Place
- Lubbock, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N93729Cessna 152
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850921046879A
- Case key
- 21851
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot experienced total engine failure when a connecting rod bolt failed and caused the engine to lock up. He was climbing in IMC weather conditions when this occurred. He was radar vectored toward his destination airport. He broke out of the clouds at about 300 feet above the ground and one and a half miles from the airport and force landed in a muddy cotton field. The aircraft flipped inverted when the nose gear made contact with the soft ground. Maintenance records revealed the engine had been top overhauled three times during its life but had never been major overhauled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93729
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285542
- Airframe hours
- 3,626
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sandene, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- F82 · Lubbock, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 612 in this make and model · 787 as pilot in command · 463 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LBB, 2 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.