- Date
- March 7, 1988, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Morristown, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N48900Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36115
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Analysis
During a landing rollout, the flight encountered strong gusty crosswinds. The aircraft ran off the right side of the runway. The nose wheel dug into mud and the prop and left wing tip made contact with the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48900
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283387
- Airframe hours
- 4,100
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Certified Pilot Center
- Registered owner
- Certified Pilot Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- WWD · Wildwood, NJ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MMU · Morristown, runway 23, 6,000 × 150 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 49 in this make and model · 21 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day