- Date
- February 13, 1989, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Crookston, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95975Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890213001879A
- Case key
- 34752
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Probable cause
Premature raising of flaps and the failure of the instructor pilot to maintain runway alignment during the attempted go around.
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
The CFI and student pilot had completed 3 touch and goes without incident, and on the fourth attempt the CFI was going to fly just above the runway to assist the student judge his flare height. The left main gear touched down and a go around manuever was initiated. The student added full power and the CFI retracted the flaps to the 20 degree position. The acft descended, drifted to the left, struck a snow bank and came to rest inverted. A slight right cross wind existed at the time of the accident. The pre-solo student had 9 hours of flight experience, all in the Cessna 152.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95975
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285994
- Airframe hours
- 2,957
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- University Of North Dakota
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 9, 1989 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- GFK · Grand Forks, ND
- Destination
- CKN · Crookston, MN
- Airport
- CKN · Kirkwood Fld, runway 31, 3,502 × 75 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 582 total · 326 in this make and model · 380 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 58 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GFK, 25 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 N95975 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.