- Date
- November 27, 1989, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Cocoa, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48472Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891127047229A
- Case key
- 32604
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. Factors related to the accident were the crosswind condition and ditch.
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
During the landing roll, on the 7th touch-&-go landing, the plt lost control of the airplane. It then veered off the left side of the rwy, encountered a ditch & nosed over. The plt stated the left brake locked up; however, an exam revealed no evidence of a failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48472
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283341
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Florida Flight Training, Inc.
- Departed
- COI
- Airport
- COI · Merritt Island, runway 11, 3,600 × 75 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIX, 12 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.
Other investigations on N48472 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.