- Date
- June 1, 1992, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Delano, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68342Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920601017379A
- Case key
- 27632
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to adequately compensate for gusting cross wind conditions and his failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 was on a solo cross country flight. After touchdown on runway 32L the pilot said a dust devil or gust of wind pushed the aircraft off the left side of the runway. The aircraft nosed over onto its back after encountering soft, recently plowed soil.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68342
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282269
- Airframe hours
- 4,600
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Security Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- M & S Air Supply
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 21, 1992 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- HHR · Hawthorne, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DLO · Delano Municipal, runway 32L, 5,650 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 146 total · 120 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N68342 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.