- Date
- January 5, 1985, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pullman, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4702ACessna 152A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850105024259A
- Case key
- 40102
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Plt made 10 touch and go landings and had just raised the flaps and was applying full pwr to initiate another takeoff. Noting he was rt of the centerline he applied left rudder. Acft veered sharply to the left where it slid on ice into a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4702A
- Reported as
- Cessna 152A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- A1520872
- Airframe hours
- 2,383
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Doug Gawda
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 4, 1984 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- PUW · Pullman, WA
- Airport
- PUW · Pullman-Moscow, runway 23, 5,931 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 18
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 38 total · 38 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PUW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4702A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.