- Date
- April 10, 1998, 16:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Brigham City, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N758YTCessna A152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 15, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19980410006559A
- Case key
- 20577
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during a touch and go landing. Related factors were: the pilot allowed his attention to be diverted into the cockpit for an excessive amount of time, and the encounter with a ditch.
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 was practicing touch-and-go landings. After landing and during the rollout, he looked down in the cockpit to configure the airplane for takeoff. When he looked up, the airplane had drifted slightly right of the runway centerline. He said he applied left rudder, but the airplane continued drifting right, then departed the west side of the runway, struck a ditch, and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On April 10, 1998, approximately 1600 mountain daylight time, a Cessna A152, N758YT, operated by Mountain Air Flying, LLC, was substantially damaged when it nosed over in a ditch during the landing roll at Brigham City, Utah. The student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the local instructional flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight had originated approximately 1545.
According to his accident report, the pilot was practicing touch and go landings. He had made one successful touch and go landing, and landed a second time. During the rollout, he looked down in the cockpit to configure the airplane for takeoff. When he looked up, the airplane had drifted slightly right of runway centerline. He applied left rudder, but the airplane continued drifting right and departed the west side of the runway. The pilot said the airplane went "into a small pond of water for a quick second," but the operator told FAA officials that the airplane struck a ditch and nosed over. The vertical stabilizer was crushed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N758YT
- Reported as
- Cessna A152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A721018
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mountain Air Flying, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Departed
- BMC
- Airport
- BMC · Brigham City, runway 16, 7,500 × 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 2 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OGD, 21 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.