- Date
- October 5, 1989, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Pleasant, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N49876Cessna A152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23058
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
The pilot failed to compensate for the cross wind during the takeoff initial climb. This led to a loss of directional control and subsequent collision with the windsock standard.
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - not maintainedFactor
Directional control - not maintainedFactor
In flight collision with object
Object - poleFactor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49876
- Reported as
- Cessna A152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281376
- Airframe hours
- 5,467
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Albert R. Neal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1988 · 574 hours before
- Departed
- MSA
- Destination
- MSA
- Airport
- MSA · Mt. Pleasant Municipal, runway 17, 3,800 × 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,564 total · 2,080 in this make and model · 10,323 as pilot in command · 314 in the last 90 days · 124 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg