- Date
- June 8, 1990, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lincoln Park, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4755PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900608022519A
- Case key
- 36660
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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Probable cause
The accident was a inflight collision with an vehicle while the airplane was on final approach for a landing.
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 CFI said she was demonstrating an landing on runway 19 when the airplane struck an unidentified vehicle with its nose wheel shearing the nosewheel off. A go around was made and the CFI diverted to the departure airport for landing. The displaced threshold markings (240 feet) on the runway were not visible due to recent runway resurfacing and the runway starts approximately 20 feet from the road. The investigation was unable to substantiate a vehicle strike by the airplane and there are no known witnesses to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4755P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284810
- Airframe hours
- 3,057
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Teterboro Flight Academy
- Registered owner
- Better Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 10, 1990 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Airport
- NO7 · Lincoln Park, runway 19, 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 560 total · 200 in this make and model · 420 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °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.