- Date
- May 18, 1989, 13:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Warrensburg, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N24984Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890518012879A
- Case key
- 34791
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Probable cause
The failure of the CFI to visually acquire and maintain clearance from power lines, which the airplane subsequently contacted.
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
While teaching a student pilot emergency landing procedures, the CFI executed a go-around near the terrain. The acft collided with power lines sustaining substantial damage, but was able to say aloft and continue back to the home airport for an uneventful landing. Damage occurred to the windshield, both landing gear fairings, the right aileron, and the horizontal and vertical stabilizers.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24984
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280493
- Airframe hours
- 4,863
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Central Missouri State Univ.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 26, 1989 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- 9K4 · Warrensburg, MO
- Airport
- 9K4 · Sky Haven
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
- 31
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 650 in this make and model · 1,135 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.