- Date
- May 7, 1990, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Katy, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N94098Cessna 152 II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900507015919A
- Case key
- 23131
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Probable cause
The cfi's inadequate supervision of the student and the airplane.
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 pilot and instructor were practicing simulated emergency landing over an uncontrolled turf airport. While on final approach, a recovery was initiated at 500 AGL. The engine began to run rough. The instructor took over the controls and executed a power on precautionary landing even though level flight could be maintained. During the landing roll onto the wet, soft turf runway, the airplane's right main gear dug into the ground. The right wing then struck the ground. Sometime during the last simulated emergency landing exercise, the student pilot may have turned the magneto switch off of the both position, onto either the left or right position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94098
- Reported as
- Cessna 152 II
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285596
- Airframe hours
- 3,367
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Woody Lesiker, doing business as Flight Enterprises Inc.
- Registered owner
- Flight Enterprises Inc
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 4, 1990
- Departed
- IWS · Houston, TX
- Airport
- 9X59 · Harbican, runway 27, 4,000 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 570 total · 100 in this make and model · 350 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH, 20 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.