- Date
- January 30, 1983, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sedan, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47526Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830130003139A
- Case key
- 33382
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was on the return leg of a round robin cross country when the encountered clouds and diverted to cushing, OK. Later, when he departed from cushing, he forgot to reset his directional gyro to correspond with the magnetic compass. When his planned 20 minute flight did not take him to his destination, he used two VOR stations to locate himself near Sedan, KS. He flew around the airport and saw the wind sock, then decided to land to the west. However, the wind sock was indicating a wind from the east. He landed with a tail wind and touched down long on the wet, grass runway. Reportedly, there was insufficient runway remaining by the time he touched down and he was unable to stop in the remaining distance. The aircraft slid off the end of the runway, hit a fence and flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47526
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152283232
- Airframe hours
- 1,780
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ross School Of Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- CUH · Cushing, OK
- Destination
- RVS · Tulsa, OK
- Airport
- 61K · Sedan City, runway 29, 1,800 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 48 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.