- Date
- November 14, 1991, 12:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, WA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N68267Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911114051459A
- Case key
- 41610
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The loss of control on takeoff by the pilot due to the improper flap setting, the premature liftoff and his failure to attain proper climb airspeed after takeoff.
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 pilot made a short field takeoff, and the acft lifted off at a slow airspeed and stalled about 100 feet AGL. Exam of the wreckage revealed the flaps were improperly set at 20 degrees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68267
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282219
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Auburn Flight Service
- Registered owner
- Auburn Flight Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- S50 · Auburn, WA
- Airport
- S50 · Auburn Municipal, runway 34, 3,400 × 150 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 590 total · 84 in this make and model · 529 as pilot in command · 154 in the last 90 days · 51 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEA, 7 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.
Other investigations on N68267 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.