- Date
- April 10, 1990, 18:30 local (Apr 11, 1990, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Banning, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24376Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900410011349A
- Case key
- 26775
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to ascertain the wind direction resulting in a downwind landing.
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 was en route on a solo cross country instructional flight when he became disoriented. He became concerned about both his fuel state and the prospect of nightfall when he saw the Banning airport. The pilot did not make a normal pattern entry or check the wind direction and speed. The pilot landed downwind on runway 8 with a tail wind estimated by witnesses to be 10 knots. The student could not stop the aircraft on the runway and it overran the departure end and collided with a large ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24376
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280242
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cari Aviation
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- TNP · Twentynine Palm, CA
- Destination
- L67 · Rialto, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- BNG · Banning Muni, runway 8, 5,200 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 87 total · 87 in this make and model · 16 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 270° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.