- Date
- August 2, 1991, 10:17 local (14:17 UTC)
- Place
- New Paltz, NY
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6494QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910802031379A
- Case key
- 36804
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Probable cause
Failure of the instructor pilot (CFI) to assure that the proper altitude was maintained. A factor related to the accident was: the cfi's lack of experience in the type of operation.
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 instructor pilot (CFI) began instructing when he had about 194 hrs of flt time. He had been instructing for 2 months and had accumulated about 338 hours of flt time when the accident occurred. The scheduled lesson for this flight included stalls, steep turns and forced landings. Just before the accident, the airplane was observed flying at low altitude in a steeply banked right turn with the engine running 'loud and clear.' A witness reported that the engine was running 'wide open' when the aircraft hit the ground. The aircraft was extensively damaged by impact. There was evidence the aircraft had impacted in about a 70 deg dive. Wreckage was scattered in a fan shaped area; the engine came to rest 252 ft from the initial impact point.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6494Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152085263
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richmor Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Richmor Aviation Inc.
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- POU · Poughkeepsie, NY
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 23
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 338 total · 112 in this make and model · 150 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 61 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.