- Date
- April 5, 1986, 15:16 local (23:16 UTC)
- Place
- Palo Alto, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89374Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860405010669A
- Case key
- 25114
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The purpose of the dual instructional flight was for the instructor pilot to check out a private pilot in the conventional gear Cessna 140 aircraft. After a series of uneventful full stop & touch & go landings, the student was directed to land. The CFI & a ground based witness reported that the acft landed normally. The witness reported that during the last portion of the acft's roll out the surface wind provided the acft with a tailwind component. The CFI reported that her student 'came up on the brakes' & she directed him not to brake. The CFI further stated that despite her effort at saving the acft by applying back pressure to the yoke, she lost control & the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89374
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8406
- Airframe hours
- 3,616
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Palo Alto Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Kent M. Kusaka
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 21, 1985 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- PAO · Palo Alto, CA
- Destination
- PAO · Palo Alto, CA
- Airport
- PAO · Palo Alto Of Santa Clara, runway 30, 2,500 × 65 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
- 29
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 484 total · 11 in this make and model · 359 as pilot in command · 117 in the last 90 days · 42 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PAO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.