- Date
- June 15, 1991, 13:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Fountain Hills, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N49627Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910615022039A
- Case key
- 27250
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot and instructor pilot to correctly configure the aircraft for the attempted go around. Contributing to the accident was the improper supervision of the flight by the flight 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
The instructor said that the student was practicing power off emergency landings at a small airstrip near Fountain Hills. During the last approach to the runway the instructor noticed that the glide path would put the aircraft short of the runway so he took over the controls and added power to go around. The instructor stated that the engine faltered and the aircraft could not maintain altitude. The aircraft collided with rising terrain just beyond the departure end of the runway. The aircraft was examined on scene by FAA airworthiness inspectors. In their report, they noted that the carburetor heat control was in the full on position and the mixture control was full rich. The density altitude was computed to be in excess of 5,000 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49627
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283458
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Superstition Air Service
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- FFZ · Mesa, AZ
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- NONE · Abandoned, runway 36, 3,000 × 50 ft, gravel
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
- 31
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,355 total · 527 in this make and model · 1,245 as pilot in command · 249 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 104 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.