- Date
- March 24, 1989, 08:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Oceanside, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N63229Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890324004589A
- Case key
- 26357
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to compensate adequately for wind conditions and to relinquish the flight controls to the instructor. Contributing to the accident was inadequate supervision by the instructor.
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 instructional flight, just after liftoff, the student pilot allowed the airplane to drift off centerline. The instructor tried to take control from the student who would not relinguish control. When the student did relinguish control, the airplane had drifted off the runway and it collided with a hangar.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63229
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275409
- Airframe hours
- 3,540
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ocean Air
- Registered owner
- Burdick, Frank
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 10, 1989
- Airport
- L32 · Oceanside, runway 24, 3,061 × 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.