MIA89LA022 · Cessna 152
Gator Air Cessna 152 · Accident: vortex turbulence encountered during initial climb
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA89LA022
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 152
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N6578B
- Operator
- Gator Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Vortex turbulence encountered
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Planning/decision, improper
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Gainesville, FL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT TAXIED TO RWY 6 & MADE AN ENG RUN-UP. AS HE CALLED THE TWR FOR TKOF, A NAVY P-3 WAS MAKING A LOW APCH TO RWY 10.THE PLT WAS TOLD TO TAXI TO RWY 10. ABT 30 SEC LATER, AS HE ARRIVED AT RWY 10, HE WAS CLRD FOR TKOF & WAS CAUTIONED ABT WAKE TURBC FM THE P-3. THE PLT TKOF ON RWY 10 & MNVRD TO AVOID WAKE TURBC. AS THE ACFT WAS CLIMBING THRU ABT 100', IT ROLLED VIOLENTLY TO THE RGT. THE PLT APPLIED CORRECTIVE ACTION, BUT THE ACFT DSCNDD & HIT THE RWY BFR HE COULD RCVR. THEAIM & FAA ADZY CIRCULAR 90-23D WARNED OF WAKE TURBC & RCMDD 2 MIN INTERVAL WHEN SMALL ACFT IS DEPG BHND A LARGE ACFT. THE TWR CTLR COMPLIED WITH APPLICABLE ATC DIRECTIVES. PARAGRAPH 3-106I OF ATC HANDBOOK 7110.65F SAID TO 'SEPARATE A SMALL ACFT BHND A LARGE ACFT TAKING OFF OR MAKING A LOW/MISSED APCH WHEN UTILIZING OPPOSITE DRCTN TAKEOFFS ON THE SAME RWY BY 3 MIN UNLESS A PLT HAS INITIATED A REQUEST TO DEVIATE FM THE 3 MIN INTERVAL. IN THE LATTER CASE, ISSUE A WAKE TURBC ADZY BEFORE CLRG THE ACFT FOR TAKEOFF.' HOWEVER, THE HANDBOOK DID NOT ADDRESS TAKEOFFS BHND SAME DRCTN LOW APCHS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA89LA022
- Event ID
- 20001213X27299
- Case number
- MIA89LA022
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 859d76b6965b1c95e8a3e4b7a468e60119f268886ed406ecf0729662368f7a23; retrieved 2026-09-22T00:21:03.932Z.