- Date
- January 20, 1990, 09:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- El Cajon, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4898LCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900120000829A
- Case key
- 26721
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during a full stop landing in calm winds.
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
The student pilot in a Cessna 152 lost directional control during a full stop landing with calm winds. After touchdown, the pilot applied the brakes and the aircraft veered off the right side of the runway and into a ditch beside the runway. No pre-accident mechanical problems were reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4898L
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284240
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Volar, doing business as Golden State Aviation
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airport
- SEE · Gillispie Field, runway 27, 5,341 × 100 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 69 total · 69 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEE
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.