- Date
- September 28, 1989, 10:40 local (14:40 UTC)
- Place
- Rockledge, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N17295Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890928036989A
- Case key
- 32508
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control of the aircraft, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. The gusty crosswind and proximity of the parked aircraft were related factors.
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 rprtd that the purpose of the flt was to practice x-wind landings before taking his pvt plt check flt, which was scheduled for the flwg day. He landed on rwy 18 with the wind fm 120 deg at 5 gusting 8 KTS. After landing, he lost control of the acft. Subsequently, it went off the left side of the rwy & collided with a parked/unoccupied Cessna 150.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17295
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073708
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Florida Flight Training, Inc.
- Airport
- X65 · Rockledge Airpark, runway 18, 2,000 × 45 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 48 in this make and model · 21 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 48 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots, gusting 8
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N17295 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.