- Date
- August 22, 1983, 16:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Douglas, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N25593Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830822042749A
- Case key
- 23828
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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
The acft crashed during takeoff. The acft was observed in a nose high attitude estimated to be 65 degrees before it stalled at about 30 ft AGL. The right wing dropped and the acft contacted the ground about 250 ft west of the rwy skidded across a taxiway and did a cartwheel. The takeoff was on rwy 28 and the reported wind was from 090 degrees at 20KTS gusting to 30 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25593
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17280753
- Airframe hours
- 2,314
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Walter A. Rosenfield, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 25, 1983
- Airport
- DGL · Douglas Muni, runway 18, 4,900 × 100 ft, dirt
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 191 total · 122 in this make and model · 103 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DUG, 9 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.