- Date
- February 16, 1993, 10:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Galt, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67615Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 15, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930216002859A
- Case key
- 27926
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the existing crosswind conditions and his failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft. A factor in the accident was the pilot's limited total flight experience.
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 27 hour student pilot was on his third unsupervised solo flight and flew to this airport to practice touch and go landings. The pilot said that just after touchdown in a slight crosswind the aircraft began veering to the left and he applied right rudder and brake inputs. The aircraft then began veering to the right and the student reported that he over corrected back to the left with brakes and rudder. The pilot stated that he could not correct the drift prior to the aircraft departing the runway pavement and encountering soft soil, which bent the nose landing gear and buckled the firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67615
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281949
- Airframe hours
- 5,564
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Executive Flyers, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Executive Flyers, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 11, 1993 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- SAC · Sacramento, CA
- Destination
- SAC
- Airport
- Q53 · Franklin Field, runway 18, 3,240 × 60 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.