- Date
- September 11, 1987, 22:20 local (Sep 12, 1987, 02:20 UTC)
- Place
- Boxborough, MA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N25223Cessna 152
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870911081999A
- Case key
- 30514
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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 IFR flight from auburn-lewiston, Maine to the manchester, new hampshire VORTAC facility was without incident. Boston center cleared the flight for the vor/dme instrument approach procedure to runway 21 at the uncontrolled stow/minute man airport, stow, Massachusetts. Witnesses residing between egore, the final approach fix, and the airport, heard the engine rev up to a high power setting moments before the aircraft crashed through trees and powerlines. Thereafter, the aircraft nosed into an asphalt roadway and came to rest in a ball of fire at a point about 2.75 miles short of the runway threshold.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25223
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280539
- Airframe hours
- 679
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eliott Lash
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 2, 1987 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- LEW · Lewiston, ME
- Destination
- 6B6 · Stow, MA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 6B6 · Minute Man, runway 21, 2,770 × 50 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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,000 total · 45 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BED, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.