- Date
- September 9, 1985, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Opa Locka, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N25590Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31450
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Touch-and-go - attempted
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - soft
Analysis
The plt stated that while attempting a touch & go landing he lost control of the acft & landed in a muddy area on the north side of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25590
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280751
- Airframe hours
- 3,989
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lauderdale Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HWO · Hollywood, FL
- Airport
- X46 · Opa-Locka West, runway 9, 3,000 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA, 12 nm away