- Date
- August 28, 1982, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Chandler, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47930Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 28, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820828042309A
- Case key
- 70190
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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
Student pilot during solo flight applied right brake to correct veer and aircraft veered right off runway. Aircraft collided with bushes and nosed over alongside runway. The right brake was locked after accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47930
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283263
- Airframe hours
- 1,249
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Venture Aviation
- Registered owner
- Fred Spears
- Departed
- PHX · Phoenix, AZ
- Destination
- PHX · Phoenix, AZ
- Airport
- L07 · Memorial, runway 30, 8,577 × 300 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
- 22
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 45 statute miles
- Temperature
- 216 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PHX, 16 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.