- Date
- February 17, 1985, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Jeannette, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69142Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850217003669A
- Case key
- 35830
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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
The student plt was practicing takeoffs and landings when on the second landing the acft bounced. The acft drifted left of the centerline and landed with the left main gear in soft, wet snow. The acft continued to roll over the snow for aprx 200 ft where it nosed over after contacting an area of mud.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69142
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282510
- Airframe hours
- 2,013
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dennis Pearson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 29, 1984 · 39 hours before
- Airport
- 5G8 · Boquet Airpark, runway 19, 2,600 × 35 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
- 18
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 25 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 12 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.