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(-23)During practice landings, instructor advised student to "go around". Student applied full power and aircraft veered to the left. Instructor took controls and attempted to make a go around. Aircraft departed the left side of runway 17 in a nose high attitude and struck the wind sock post. Aircraft came to rest 200 feet beyond wind sock. There were no injuries, damage was confined to the left wing and center wing section of the fuselage. (.4) history of flight on April 9, 2001, about 0900 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172R, N436ER, registered to Boeing capital, and operated by embry-riddle aeronautical university, as a title 14 CFR part 91 instructional flight, departed the runway during landing and collided with a wind sock at Ormond Beach, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The commercial-rated flight instructor, and the dual student were not injured. The airplane incurred substantial damage. The flight originated from Ormond Beach, the same day, about 0845. The student pilot stated that he was piloting the aircraft, and had been having trouble with the traffic pattern. He said that during the landing that precipitated th e accident, he had flown a perfect pattern, but as he started getting closer to the runway, and started the transition by reducing power and initiating the flare, it seemed like it was a high flare because he felt the airplane sink under him. He said they hit the runway hard, and he heard the flight instructor say go around, so he gave the airplane full power and tried to climb out, but he was blown left, and headed off the runway. The flight instructor stated the student had made a nice approach, but began to flare too early. The instructor further stated that she immediately told the student to go around. She said the student added power, but in less time than it takes to blink an eye the airplane was headed hard to the left, and was not climbing. The instructor said she yelled "my controls" but the aircraft was headed directly towards the wind sock. She said the left wing hit the wind sock, and she was able to stop the airplane past the wind sock in the grass. She said the whole event happened fast, and she was focused on looking outside the airplane and did not know what abrupt control input by the student, along with the crosswind from the right, caused the airplane to change direction so severely. She said the student had been pointing the nose of the aircraft down the runway correctly, and even had proper crosswind correction during the flare. The instructor stated that the airplane had not been in an excessive nose high attitude as the go-around was attempted, and there was no buffeting or stall warning horn activation. She said the airplane simply was not climbing. She said she had taught the student "cramb, climb, clean, communicate," when executing go-arounds, and the "clean" part of the sequence had not been performed, since the climb had not been established. She said that full flaps (30 degrees) was still down before, during, and after the crash. The instructor also said that it was possible that in a panic the student slammed on the left brake causing the airplane to turn abruptly, since he had large feet and she had warned him several times about making sure they were FAR enough back on the floor so that he would not hit the brakes accidentally. She also said that the student tended to land to the left of the runway centerline.