Cessna 152 N95670

Summary

On 15 February 2013 at about 01:10 local time, a Cessna 152 registered N95670, operated by Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees DBA, was involved in an accident near Murphysboro, Illinois, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

15 February 2013 at 01:10

Classification

Accident

Location

Murphysboro, Illinois, United States

Nearest airport

Southern Illinois Airport (MDH)

Coordinates

37.7781, -89.2519

Aircraft

Cessna 152

Registration

N95670

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees DBA

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Murphysboro → Murphysboro

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Not Reported

NTSB number

CEN13CA169

Nobody was injured.

An inadvertent encounter with birds while on the downwind leg in the traffic pattern.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot was performing a night solo flight to practice some night landings. While on the downwind leg in the traffic pattern after his first takeoff, he saw a “flash” of four to six birds fly through his field of view from the bottom left to the top right of the airplane and subsequently heard a loud noise. He said that the impact lifted the right wing upward slightly and that he thought it was a bird strike. He landed the airplane without further incident. The next day, the pilot noticed substantial damage to the right wing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.