- Date
- October 12, 1985, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49958Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851012071049A
- Case key
- 21989
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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 was instructed to follow through with his left hand on the controls during the takeoff. After liftoff the CFI felt that the acft was climbting too steeply. He told the student to get off the controls, thinking that he was applying too much back pressure. The CFI still felt that the acft was climbing too steeply and a precautionary landing was made. After touchdown the acft overran the remaining rwy and grass area beyond the rwy and collided with a ditch before coming to a stop. No mechanical failure or malfunction of the acft's control system was discovered according to information received from the plt at a later date.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49958
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281415
- Airframe hours
- 2,854
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- M. Able Aviation Co., Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 20, 1985
- Airport
- AAP · Andrau, runway 16, 4,750 × 50 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 480 total · 242 in this make and model · 435 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.