- Date
- January 29, 2001, 11:25 local (16:25 UTC)
- Place
- Edgewater, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N152DFCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 30, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Orlando FSDO
- FAA report
- 20010129002199A
- Case key
- 51406
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing rollout with a crosswind. This resulted in the airplane departing the runway, colliding with a berm/ridge, becoming airborne, and colliding with the terrain in a nose down attitude.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot stated he was conducting a touch and go landing with a crosswind. On touchdown he took out the crosswind correction and the airplane veered to the left, departed the runway, collided with a ridge, became airborne, and collided with the ground in a nose down attitude.
Factual narrative
On January 29, 2001, at about 1125 eastern standard time, a Cessna 152, N152DF, registered to International Wings, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight crashed on landing rollout at the Massey Ranch Airpark, Edgewater, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The student pilot reported no injuries. The flight originated from Massey Ranch Airpark about 25 minutes before the accident.
The student pilot stated he had been conducting touch-and-go landings with a crosswind. On touchdown he took out the crosswind correction. The airplane started to veer to the left, departed the runway into the grass, collided with a ridge, became airborne, and collided with the ground in a nose-down attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N152DF
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283222
- Airframe hours
- 10,992
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- International Wings
- Registered owner
- International Wings
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 21, 2000 · 86 hours before
- Departed
- X50 · Edgewater, FL
- Airport
- X50 · Massey Ranch Airpark, runway 18, 3,845 × 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
- 43
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.