- Date
- August 10, 1985, 08:20 local (12:20 UTC)
- Place
- Eliot, ME
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N714NCCessna C150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35941
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
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Stall - initiatedCause
Climb - improperCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
In flight collision with object
Lack of familiarity with aircraftCause
Object - tree(s)
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
Aircraft collided with trees when the aircraft stalled during an attempted go around. The student pilot was on his first solo supervised flight. On landing he came in long and prior to the wheels touching down, power was added. However during the climb, with the aircraft in a nos high attitude the aircraft stalled into trees left on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714NC
- Reported as
- Cessna C150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15079295
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jean M. Lanquell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Eliot, ME
- Airport
- Littlebrook
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day