- Date
- December 21, 1985, 14:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Rochester, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N98240Piper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851221063509A
- Case key
- 30279
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
Aircraft handling - not maintainedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
The acft contacted the terrain following a loss of control during an attempted go-around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N98240
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-26127
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E28, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ray Hyan School Of Aero. Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ROC · Rochester, NY
- Airport
- ROC · Rochester, runway 25, 4,403 × 150 ft, asphalt
N98240Registered now · Piper PA-28-140Airframe modelPiper PA-28-140Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.