- Date
- January 22, 1991, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Stroudsburg, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67315Cessna 152U
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910122002199A
- Case key
- 36869
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during landing, resulting in a collision with a snowbank. Factors related to the accident were: the pilot's lack of total flight experience and the unfavorable wind during landing.
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 pilot was on a solo cross country. During landing, he said, 'I adjusted for a slight crosswind and touched down...I was surprised at how narrow the runway was, but thought I could handle it. At the last moment I encountered a gust and I swerved to the left causing my left landing gear to contact hard frozen snow...I must have overcorrected because I soon swerved...right into hard snow.' The airplane nosed over the student had a total of 37 flight hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67315
- Reported as
- Cessna 152U
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 07
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Venture Inc.
- Registered owner
- Aero Venture Inc.
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- N87 · Trenton/Robinsv, NJ
- Airport
- N53 · Stroudsburg/Pocono, runway 8, 3,087 × 30 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 37 in this make and model · 37 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.