- Date
- December 20, 1988, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Pedricktown, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24824Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881220071039A
- Case key
- 36354
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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
Supervision - inadequateCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - dirt bank/rising embankment
Nose over
Analysis
During landing the pilot lost directional control of the aircraft and ran off the left side of the runway, hit a dirt bank and flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24824
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280400
- Airframe hours
- 2,319
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Earl F. Mc Gu;Ire
- Registered owner
- Thomas E. Kurtz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 6, 1988 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- 7N7 · Old Mans, runway 24, 3,600 × 50 ft, asphalt
N24824Registration cancelled May 4, 2015 · 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
- 65
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 19,700 total · 15 in this make and model · 17,600 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.