- Date
- January 16, 1987, 15:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Montgomery, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6717GCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870116000689A
- Case key
- 30580
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During an instructional flight to orange county airport, a simulated engine out was performed while on approach for landing. Directional control was lost and the flight landed west of runway 3 in snow causing substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6717G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072217
- Airframe hours
- 3,195
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pan American Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 14, 1986 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- MGJ · Montgomery, NY
- Airport
- MGJ · Orange Co., runway 21, 5,000 × 100 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,058 total · 570 in this make and model · 830 as pilot in command · 208 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.