- Date
- May 4, 1985, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn Center, PA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6851HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850504016179A
- Case key
- 35601
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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
During attempted landing on a non-certificated strip, plt attempted a go around. The acft struck a grounding cable which was stretched between two telephone poles near the end of the airstrip. The acft then traveled aprx 120 ft before contacting trees. When landing to the north, the airstrip has an aprx 5 deg upslope.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6851H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265607
- Airframe hours
- 2,287
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Frank E. Cattafi
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 11, 1985 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- CDN · Caldwell, PA
- Airport
- 12 · Frank Gomberg Arpt.
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,774 total · 64 in this make and model · 128 as pilot in command · 73 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point -0 °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.