CHI90LA027 · Cessna 152
Cessna 152 · Accident: on ground/water encounter with weather during landing
From Glenndale Airport (8I3) to Glenndale Airport (8I3)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI90LA027
- 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
- N757UV
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Glenndale Airport (8I3)To Glenndale Airport (8I3)
- 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
- Landing
- 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
- On ground/water encounter with weather
- 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 › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
WHILE PREPARING FOR HIS 4TH SOLO FLT TO PRACTICE TAKEOFFS & LNDGS, THE STUDENT PLT NOTED A WIND FROM THE SW. DURING THE ROLL-OUT FROM HIS 2ND LANDING ON RWY 18, THE ACFT ENCTRD A GUST OF WIND FROM THE RIGHT & BECAME AIRBORNE. THE STUDENT TRIED TO CORRECT THE SITUATION, BUT THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN HARD & THE NOSE GEAR DUG INTO THE TURF RWY & COLLAPSED. ABOUT 14 MI NORTH AT GRISSOM AFB, THE 0955 EST WIND WAS FROM 280 DEG AT 19 GUSTING 24 KTS. THE STUDENT'S INSTRUCTOR PLT (CFI) STATED 'IT WAS TOO WINDY FOR (THE) STUDENT. THE CFI ALSO RPRTD THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THE STUDENT HAD INITIATED THE SOLO FLT BECAUSE HE (THE CFI) WAS FLYING WITH ANOTHER STUDENT. THE CFI HAD NOT ENTERED ANY WIND RESTRICTIONS IN THE STUDENT PLT'S LOG BOOK, THOUGH HE NOTED THE STUDENT SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN OFF WITH MORE THAN A 10 MPH WIND OR A 5 MPH X-WIND.
Probable cause
THE STUDENT PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY THE STUDENT'S FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR (CFI), THE STUDENT'S FAILURE TO OBTAIN WEATHER INFORMATION (USE A PREFLIGHT BRIEFING SERVICE) BEFORE THE FLIGHT, AND THE ADVERSE WIND CONDITIONS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI90LA027
- Event ID
- 20001213X29763
- Case number
- CHI90LA027
- 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: 17370491c247456ba3c4403dc4be932d14cdc6a4d94566541ae9b6de536d6786; retrieved 2026-09-23T06:58:18.830Z.