- Date
- July 2, 1986, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Oxford, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64998Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860702029849A
- Case key
- 34204
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student PIC was practicing touch and go landings at a pvt strip when on landing the PIC stated he lost directional control and veered off the left side of runway 33. The ensuing departure substantially damaged the acft. Rptd winds were 290 degrees at 10 knots. The PIC rptd no mechanical pblm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64998
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152-81523
- Airframe hours
- 2,909
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Don W. Nelson, doing business as Green Castle Aviation
- Registered owner
- First Coralville Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 1, 1985 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- Oxford, IA
- Airport
- PVT · Green Castle, runway 33, 4,000 × ft, gravel
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13 total · 13 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CID, 6 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 N64998 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.