- Date
- January 31, 1988, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Meriden, CT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1077DCessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880131012369A
- Case key
- 36086
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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
After performing several touch and go landings, the student pilot made a landing right of the center line. The aircraft drifted to the right, struck a snowbank, sheared off the left main landing gear, then groundlooped. The aircraft came to rest on the grass to the right of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1077D
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7689
- Airframe hours
- 3,400
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-9, 245 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Frank Podgwaite
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1987
- Airport
- MMK · Meriden/Markham, runway 18, 3,058 × 75 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
- 67
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,950 total · 22 in this make and model · 9,500 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- 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.