- Date
- March 9, 1990, 15:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Glens Falls, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N46725Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900309003769A
- Case key
- 36618
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Probable cause
Pilot factor in that he lost directional control during takeoff and subsequently collided with a snowbank.
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 pilot departed Glens Falls after doing three touch and go landings. He then climbed to 3,000 feet, did two power off stalls and practiced slow flight. He returned to the Glens Falls airport, landed on or near the numbers and prepared for another takeoff. However after noticing a plane ahead taking off, he lost directional control and the aircraft veered off the runway and collided with a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46725
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283095
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Paul R. Moore,Jr.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- GFL · Flens Falls, NY
- Airport
- GFL · Glens Falls, runway 1, 5,000 × 150 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N46725 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.