- Date
- May 15, 1982, 20:30 local (May 16, 1982, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Weedsport, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6642SCessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 15, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820516016009A
- Case key
- 72985
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot attempted to contact the Weedsport airport on UNICOM; however, the radio had been shut down when the airport closed. Without the runway lights available the pilot elected to land on runway 28. The aircraft touched down in a plowed field approximately 100 feet from the end of the runway, continued 300 feet and came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6642S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15067442
- Airframe hours
- 1,324
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles W. Gilmore
- Registered owner
- Charles W. Gilmore
- Departed
- Moravia, NY
- Destination
- 49WI · Loganville, WI
- Airport
- B16 · Whitford, runway 28, 2,860 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 52 in this make and model · 44 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 140 °F
- Observed at
- SYR, 19 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.