- Date
- March 19, 1985, 09:44 local (14:44 UTC)
- Place
- Vero Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69109Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850319008189A
- Case key
- 31372
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was practicing touch-&-go landings on rwy 11. Due to a wind shift, the active rwy was changed to rwy 4. The student stated that during his 1st pattern for a landing on rwy 4, his apch was high & fast. As the acft touched down, he lost directional control. The acft then swerved to the left, went off the rwy, encountered soft terrain & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69109
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282487
- Airframe hours
- 3,219
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pro-Flite Of Vero Beach Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 7, 1984 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- VRB
- Airport
- VRB · Vero Beach, runway 4, 4,975 × 100 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 35 total · 35 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB, 1 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.
Other investigations on N69109 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.