- Date
- March 26, 1989, 18:13 local (Mar 27, 1989, 00:13 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N45940Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890326004559A
- Case key
- 22849
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the landing, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. Contributing factors were: inadequate supervision by the CFI, who authorized the 2nd solo flight in unfavorable wind conditions, the crosswind, the student pilot's improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing, the ravine (ditch), and the trees.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45940
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282951
- Airframe hours
- 5,422
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pegasus Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Aero Plane Shop, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 10, 1989 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- FTW
- Destination
- FTW
- Airport
- FTW · Meacham, runway 16R, 4,001 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 59 total · 59 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.