- Date
- September 16, 1989, 15:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Yulee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67785Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890916035449A
- Case key
- 32504
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Probable cause
Improper planning/decision by the student pilot. Factors related to the accident were: the adverse weather conditions and the tree and ditch in the emergency landing area.
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
The student plt was on the last leg of her 1st solo x-country flt. During normal cruise, she observed clouds east of the route of flt & altered her course to the west. She then noted a funnel cloud & elected to reverse course, but reportedly, was surrounded by clouds. She made a precautionary landing on a road. During the landing roll, the acft's left wing collided with a tree. The acft then went off the road, traveled into a ditch & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67785
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282017
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviators Unlimited
- Departed
- BQK · Brunswick, GA
- Destination
- CRG · Jacksonville, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- JAX, 19 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.