- Date
- August 4, 1990, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Middlesex, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76850Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 6, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900804033749A
- Case key
- 36708
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to execute a go-around. Factors which contributed to the accident was his misjudgement of speed and distance which resulted in overshooting the 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
A witness stated that the '... Airplane approached high, hot, and landed long.' It then ran off the end onto high grass and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76850
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11284
- Airframe hours
- 3,698
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas L. Gaile, Sr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 11, 1989 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- N22 · Penn Yan, NY
- Airport
- NONE · Middlesex, runway 21, 2,000 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 48
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 255 total · 11 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °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 N76850 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.