- Date
- January 25, 1989, 16:30 local (Jan 26, 1989, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Puyallup, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N49104Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890125001239A
- Case key
- 40974
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Probable cause
Failure on the part of the student pilot to maintain directional control of the aircraft. Contributing to the accident were poor approach and flare technique and lack of recent experience.
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 made a fast, flat approach to a touch and go landing. When power was increased for the takeoff, the acft veered off the left side of the runway. This was the students first flight after not having flown for 36 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49104
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281151
- Airframe hours
- 2,654
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Spanaflight
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 21, 1988 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- S44 · Spanaway, WA
- Airport
- 1SO · Pierce County, runway 17, 3,300 × 45 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 18 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIW, 16 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.