- Date
- March 1, 1985, 10:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N89716Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850301005289A
- Case key
- 24666
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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
During an authorized local solo practice flt, the 31-hour student was performing takeoffs and landing. According to plt, second landing was 'hard' and a nose wheel shimmy was noted during the taxi-back for takeoff. Just before liftoff on the next takeoff, the acft veered sharply to the left off the runway, crossed a taxiway and collided with an embankment of drying pistachio hulls arranged parallel to the taxiway. Plt stated that there was no mechanical malfunction of the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89716
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282837
- Airframe hours
- 1,580
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sierra Flite Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 6, 1984 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- BFL · Bakersfield, CA
- Airport
- L73 · Poso Kern County, runway 34, 3,000 × 60 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 34 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFL, 11 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.