- Date
- November 26, 1983, 15:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Huntington, WV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49440Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831126058859A
- Case key
- 6390
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Touch-and-go - performedFactor
Aborted landing - performedFactor
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertent
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
Acft ballooned during the landing portion of a touch-&-go. The student added power & the acft stalled in a nose high attitude. The acft dropped to the rwy from about 10 ft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49440
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281269
- Airframe hours
- 1,758
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tri State Executive Air Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 23, 1983 · 61 hours before
- Airport
- HTS · Tri-State, runway 30, 6,509 × 150 ft, asphalt
N49440Registration cancelled Aug 22, 2011 · Cessna 152Airframe modelCessna 152Engine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 30,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HTS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.