- Date
- January 8, 1987, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Forrest City, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N68792Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870108002829A
- Case key
- 34332
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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 - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Analysis
The student pilot was landing after one leg of a solo cross-country flight. The airplane ran off the right side of the runway and into a small drainage ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68792
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285338
- Airframe hours
- 1,746
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mustang, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- JBR · Jonesboro, AR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- FCY · Municipal, runway 35, 3,000 × 50 ft, asphalt
N68792Registration cancelled Mar 2, 2018 · 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JBR, 54 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.