- Date
- March 22, 1985, 15:53 local (23:53 UTC)
- Place
- Shafter, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N67001Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850322011249A
- Case key
- 24682
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt was on his 1st supervised solo flt. He reported that on downwind, the acft was too hi, so he extended 10 deg of flaps. On base, he extended the flaps to 20 deg, & before turning onto final apch, he further extended them to 30 deg. The student then realized the acft was getting too low, so he retracted the flaps. The acft then descended extremely low, collided with power lines aprx 1/2 mi from the rwy & crash landed in an open field. The chief instructor believed the student's CFI used improper methods & released the student for solo before he was ready. Two other experienced instructors provided an additional 40 hrs of dual instruction & did not re-solo the student.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67001
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281715
- Airframe hours
- 1,353
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Center International, Inc.
- Registered owner
- K.L. Holbert
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Destination
- MIT
- Airport
- MIT · Shafter-Minter Field, runway 30, 4,520 × 150 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.