- Date
- September 11, 1989, 13:14 local (20:14 UTC)
- Place
- Torrance, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95554Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 26499
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing roll-out, which resulted a ground swerve. The pilot's relatively low level of flying experience and the berm beside the runway were related factors.
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
While practicing touch-&-go landings, the 35 hr student plt landed on the 150 ft wide rwy. During roll-out, he lost directional control as the acft veered toward the edge of the rwy. The student stated he feared that by correcting the ground track of the acft, it would 'tumble.' The acft rolled off the rwy, collided with a 1.5 ft high dirt berm & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95554
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152859921
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Southwest Skyways, Inc.
- Airport
- TOA · Torrance Muni, runway 11L, 5,000 × 150 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 35 total · 33 in this make and model · 8 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- TOA