- Date
- December 26, 1988, 14:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Wiscasset, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3736SCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881226056349A
- Case key
- 36356
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
In flight collision with object
Flight controls - improper use ofCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
Object - tree(s)Factor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt lost control during an attempted go-around, and collided with trees off the side of the runway. The pilot said that a gust of wind turned the acft 45 degrees to the runway on landing roll, and during the attempted go-around he hit tree tops off to the side of the runway and crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3736S
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17250936
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Roy A Crump, doing business as None
- Registered owner
- Roy A Crump
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PTD · Potsdam, NY
- Destination
- 9B9 · Wiscasset, ME
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 989 · Wiscasset, runway 25, 3,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 270 total · 223 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 20 knots
- 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.