- Date
- October 22, 1984, 13:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Wappinger Falls, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4904BCessna 152II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35636
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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 solo student plt stated that during the flare the acft drifted left toward the rwy lights. A go-around was initiated with power and the acft flew over the lights but collided with the unimproved grassy terrain, coming to rest aprx 30 ft left of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4904B
- Reported as
- Cessna 152II
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283699
- Airframe hours
- 2,493
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richmor Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 27, 1984 · 42 hours before
- Airport
- POU · Dutchess County, runway 24, 5,001 × 100 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 51 total · 51 in this make and model · 16 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
Other investigations on N4904B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.