- Date
- October 4, 1991, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, ME
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2065ECessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911004044989A
- Case key
- 37083
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Probable cause
The pilot was buzzing and stalled the airplane at too low an altitude to recover.
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 airplane was seen flying about 50 feet above the water. The nose of the airplane pitched up and then stalled, resulting the airplane impacting into the water. The attending physician and a police officer said they smelled alcohol on the student pilot's breath at the hospital after the accident. The pilot refused a drug alcohol test.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2065E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271140
- Airframe hours
- 4,210
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Turner Avn Co. Inc.
- Registered owner
- Turner Avn Co. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 26, 1991 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- 3B5 · Turner, ME
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.