- Date
- April 28, 1986, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Woodstock, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N3235VCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30328
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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 student pilot in a Cessna 150 was making a touch and go. He raised the flaps and then added power. He looked over to see if the flaps were retracting and when he looked straight ahead the left wheel was off the runway in soft terrain. He reduced power and the aircraft drifted further left off the runway receiving substantial damage. The student pilot was uninjured. The crosswind was from the right.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3235V
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076433
- Airframe hours
- 3,072
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Woodstock Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 11, 1985 · 92 hours before
- Airport
- CT04 · George Campert Memorial, runway 35, 1,700 × 60 ft, gravel
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 28 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None