- Date
- February 7, 1987, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Venice, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6237MCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870207002319A
- Case key
- 31852
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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.
Analysis
Full flap x-wind take off & landings were being conducted on rwy 13 with the winds at 210 to 220 degs at 10 KTS, or a right x-wind component of 80 to 90 degs. The student plt permitted the acft to get too slow while about 10 ft above the ground. A high sink rate developed, a hard ldg was made & the acft bounced back into the air. The student applied full power & caught the instructor 'by surprise'. 15 ft above the ground with no flt speed, the instructor pushed the nose down but the x-wind blew the acft into the grass catching the left wing & nose. The operating handbook for the acft states that when ldg in a strong x-wind, 'use minimum flap setting required for the field length'. Rwy 13 is 5000 long.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6237M
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284643
- Airframe hours
- 2,559
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Air Venice, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 9, 1986
- Departed
- VNC · Venice, FL
- Airport
- VNC · Venice Municipal, runway 13, 5,000 × 150 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,307 total · 437 in this make and model · 1,189 as pilot in command · 206 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRQ, 22 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.