- Date
- October 25, 1986
- Place
- Oriskany, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3030VCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861025051549A
- Case key
- 30432
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Light condition - nightFactor
Touch-and-go - initiated
Object - animal(s)Cause
Analysis
The student & instructor plt (CFI) were making a night, touch-&-go landing, when the acft struck a deer on the rwy. They were unable to see the deer in time to avoid a collision.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3030V
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076359
- Airframe hours
- 2,036
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph P. Shay
- Registered owner
- Paul M. Kinach
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 19, 1986 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- UCA
- Airport
- UCA · Oneida County, runway 15, 6,000 × 150 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
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 374 total · 357 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.