- Date
- February 7, 1982, 13:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Cape Girardeau, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5272BCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820207003029A
- Case key
- 70127
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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
During his second solo flight, the student pilot landed in a slight left quartering headwind. He stated that he had left rudder applied on touchdown and the aircraft veered left into a snowbank and nose over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5272B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283823
- Airframe hours
- 907
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Maroin Ferrell Jr.
- Registered owner
- Cape Central Airways, Incorpor
- Departed
- CGI · Cape Girardeau, MO
- Destination
- CGI · Cape Girardeau, MO
- Airport
- CGI · Cape Girardeau Municipal, runway 20, 4,000 × 0 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7 total · 7 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.