- Date
- November 16, 1982, 11:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dubuque, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68138Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 16, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821116058619A
- Case key
- 70515
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Air/ground communications - not attained
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Flare - improperCause
Stall - inadvertent
Hard landing
Analysis
Student pilot tried to contact tower on incorrect frequency. Approach was high and long. Stalled aircraft 25 feet AGL half way down runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68138
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282142
- Airframe hours
- 1,550
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Frank Ellenbecker
- Registered owner
- Fred Giese
- Departed
- LSE · La Crosse, WI
- Destination
- Spirit Lake, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DBQ · Dubuque Muni, runway 13, 6,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
N68138Registration cancelled Feb 26, 2013 · Cessna 152Airframe modelCessna 152Engine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 100 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DBQ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.