- Date
- May 9, 1983, 19:30 local (May 10, 1983, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Albany, MS
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76379Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830509019699A
- Case key
- 5974
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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 student plt was instructed to make 1 or 2 landings after returning from a solo cross-country flt. He was unable to recall details of the accident, but his wife was at the airport & was a witness. According to her, the plt made a go-around on his first approach. On the second approach, the acft touched down, bounced once or twice, power was added & the acft lifted off. However, during the sequence, the acft angled to the left of the rwy & subsequently collided with a row of trees aprx 360 ft from the rwy centerline. The acft was examined & an engine run-up was made, but no preimpact mechanical malfunction of failure was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76379
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10800
- Airframe hours
- 1,758
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles C. Harris
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 18, 1982 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- M72 · New Albany, MS
- Destination
- M72 · New Albany, MS
- Airport
- M72 · New Albany, runway 35, 3,900 × 75 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 31 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 40° at 6 knots, gusting 6
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MEM
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 N76379 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.