- Date
- October 2, 1986, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Buxton, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N94457Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861002047809A
- Case key
- 30538
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.
Overrun
Terrain condition - wet
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Directional control - not attainedCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - tree(s)
Analysis
The pilot was making a short field landing at a private airstrip which was grass covered and wet. The pilot came in too high and long and once on the ground, skidded to a stop between two trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94457
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285679
- Airframe hours
- 1,012
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Scott P. Orr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1985 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- Limington, ME
- Destination
- Portland, ME
- Airport
- Private Strip, runway 27, 1,000 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 577 total · 132 in this make and model · 414 as pilot in command · 119 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.