- Date
- January 28, 1987, 12:04 local (19:04 UTC)
- Place
- Mesa, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95529Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870128001239A
- Case key
- 25511
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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 a local solo instructional flight, the pilot was practicing pattern work. On final approach the pilot reported that no correction for a cross wind was required. During the flare the pilot stated the aircraft drifted to the left. Upon touch down on the left side of the centerline the aircraft still drifted to the left. The aircraft ran off the runway at which time the pilot added power to avoid running into a drainage ditch. The aircraft ballooned over the ditch that parallels runway 22R and touched down a second time between runways 22L and 22R and collided with the drainage ditch that parallels the center taxiway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95529
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285914
- Airframe hours
- 1,391
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jack O. Hobbs
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 31, 1986 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- FFZ · Mesa, CA
- Airport
- FFZ · Falcon Fld, runway 22R, 3,800 × 75 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 52 total · 52 in this make and model · 23 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FFZ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.