- Date
- June 21, 1993, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Wyantskill, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N714WFCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930621019669A
- Case key
- 37335
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision and delayed remedial action by the flight instructor. The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control and his inexperience is a contributing factor.
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
During the takeoff roll, the airplane under the control of a 7 hour total time student pilot, drifted to the left side of the runway. The flight instructor commented the fact to the student and as the airplane became airborne, it banked to the right and the right wing tip struck the ground. The flight instructor took control of the airplane, but he was unable to correct the situation before the wing tip hit the ground and then the airplane flew into trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714WF
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279484
- Airframe hours
- 5,603
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- High Country Helicopters, Inc., doing business as Hudson Valley Aviation
- Registered owner
- High Country Helicopters, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 10, 1993 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- 5B7
- Destination
- 5B7
- Airport
- 5B7 · Rensselaer County, runway 18, 2,670 × 50 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 317 total · 233 in this make and model · 240 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALB, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.