- Date
- June 23, 1985, 09:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Independence, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N95496Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850623062439A
- Case key
- 33843
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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
Student pilot and instructor were practicing pre-solo landings. When airplane was 30 feet AGL and on very short final approach, airplane dropped to ground, went through top of two dikes and two ditches, impacted bank of second ditch and flipped forward to inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95496
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285906
- Airframe hours
- 216
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roger E. Billings
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 22, 1985 · 14 hours before
- Airport
- 31P · Independence Memorial, runway 17, 2,550 × 50 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
- 38
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 361 total · 234 in this make and model · 302 as pilot in command · 72 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKC, 15 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.