- Date
- June 30, 1985, 10:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Gaithersburg, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N757MPCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850630077639A
- Case key
- 11189
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
After not obtaining surface wind info and not observing the wind sock, the student plt entered final apch without observing any significant drift. When the acft was at nose-up attitude. It floated and stopped descending for a few seconds. Suddenly, the plt heard loud whipping noises and observed the right wingtip contacting thin branches of small trees. The plt made a go-around attempt. The acft did not ascend, but after several seconds the right wingtip was free of the trees and the acft rapidly yawed to the left. After aligning with the runway centerline, the aircraft wheels contacted the rwy at a nearly level attitude and the acft landed without further incident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757MP
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279851
- Airframe hours
- 2,670
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tss Flying Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 4, 1984 · 250 hours before
- Airport
- GAI · Montgomery County Airpark, runway 14, 4,235 × 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
- 22
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 62 total · 62 in this make and model · 23 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N757MP · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.