- Date
- April 22, 1982, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- New Port Richey, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67966Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 22, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820422010659A
- Case key
- 71994
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot reported that she landed with 30 degrees of flaps on runway 23. She reported that the wind was gusting from 15 to 20 knots and the wind sock seemed to fluctuate from westerly to northwesterly. The pilot related that the aircraftbounced twice upon landing before she applied power for a go-around. However, the wing flaps had been retracted and the aircraft came back down on the runway and the pilot was unable to maintain control and the plane veered off the leftside of the runway and flipped inverted into a canal beside the runway. The pilot reported that the nose gear steering rod appeared to have broken during a hard landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67966
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282119
- Airframe hours
- 1,404
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald F. Kaltenbach
- Registered owner
- Donald F. Kaltenbach
- Departed
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Destination
- Osceola, IA
- Airport
- X28 · Hidden Lake, runway 23, 3,400 × 50 ft, macadam
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Invalid Medical for flight
- Flight hours
- 121 total · 118 in this make and model · 69 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 14 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 196 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE, 21 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.