- Date
- September 29, 1989, 17:40 local (Sep 30, 1989, 00:40 UTC)
- Place
- Alderwood Manor, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N24995Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890929037249A
- Case key
- 41087
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Probable cause
Inadequate compensation for wind conditions by the student pilot, and inadequate supervision by the instructor pilot (CFI), which resulted in a failure to maintain proper altitude. Factors related to the accident were: unfavorable (variable) wind, downdraft, and the vehicle.
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
During a short field apch on an instructional flt, the acft encountered a downdraft & hit an auto that was proceeding along a public road near the apch end of the rwy. The instructor (CFI) stated that they had encountered a downdraft earlier in the apch & had made a normal recovery; however, they could not recover from the 2nd downdraft in time to avoid hitting the auto.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24995
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280502
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard & Kandace Harvey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- PAE
- Destination
- PAE
- Airport
- S13 · Martha Lake, runway 16, 1,689 × 40 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
- 40
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,500 total · 3,500 in this make and model · 4,450 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 55 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N24995 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.