- Date
- November 24, 1987, 13:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- San Clemente, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5418PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871124067809A
- Case key
- 25913
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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
A partial loss of eng power occurred while the student plt was on a solo x-country flt. He applied carb heat, but to no avail. The eng continued to run rough & the plt made an emergency landing on upward sloping terrain. During the landing roll, the nose gear hit a hole in the dirt & the acft nosed over. An exam of the eng disclosed that the #3 exhaust valve retaining nut had backed off until the valve would not operate as the crankshaft was rotated. During maintenance on the previous day, the #3 valves had been adjusted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5418P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284941
- Airframe hours
- 3,457
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gunnel Aviation
- Registered owner
- John G. Lawson & Charles Nol
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 24, 1987 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Destination
- CRQ · Carlsbad, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SNA
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 54 total · 54 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRQ, 22 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.