- Date
- August 20, 1989, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Columbus, MS
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N757WXCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890820030419A
- Case key
- 32483
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point during landing.
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
While on final apch, the acft touched down short of the rwy, travelled onto it, then was destroyed by postcrash fire. The plt stated that the eng operated normally.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757WX
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280072
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Taloney Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- M95 · Fayette, AL
- Airport
- UBS · Columbus Lowndes County, runway 18, 4,500 × 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 318 total · 115 in this make and model · 37 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 30,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Observed at
- CBM, 11 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.