- Date
- July 14, 1986, 15:40 local (19:40 UTC)
- Place
- Kingston, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N54946Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860714032569A
- Case key
- 30382
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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 plt was on his 1st solo flt. After a go-around, his next apch was good until the acft encountered a gust of wind just before touchdown. Subsequently, the acft landed hard (hit on rear section), veered off the rwy & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54946
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275084
- Airframe hours
- 1,200
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Neil Rubenstein
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1985
- Airport
- Kingston-Ulster, runway 33, 3,270 × 22 ft, macadam
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2 total · 2 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 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.