NYC85LA160
1985-06-19 · NEWPORT, New Hampshire, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Airport 2B3
Current FAA registration · N9977E
- Make / Model
- CESSNA 182A
- Year of manufacture
- 1958 · 27 years old at event
- Engine
- CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)
- Seats / Engines
- 4 seats · 1 engine
- Last airworthiness date
- 19970805
- ADS-B equipped
- Yes — Mode-S ADEFF6
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Factual narrative
THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH TREES DURING AN ATTEMPTED GO-AROUND FOLLOWING A LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. THE PLT WAS ADVISED BY UNICOM THAT A 'BIT OF A CROSSWIND' EXISTED AT THE ARPT. THE PLT INITIATED A GO-AROUND AFTER A GUST OF WIND WAS MISALIGNED THE ACFT DURING THE LANDING FLARE. ANOTHER GUST WAS ENCOUNTERED DURING THE GO-AROUND AND THE ACFT WAS BLOWN LEFT OF THE RWY WHERE IT COLLIDED WITH TREES. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12
Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file
NTSB_1985_NYC85LA160.txt.
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Related research
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- NASA NTRS 2025 · Conference Paper A Training Study to Improve Monitoring During A Go-Around
As part of an FAA program to improve go-around (GA) safety, we were asked to determine if we could improve the performance of the Pilot Monitoring (PM) during a GA maneuver.
- Flight Safety Foundation 2024 · FSF / AeroSafety World Go-Around Safety Forum Findings
Foundation Go-Around Safety Forum technical findings — examines why pilots fail to execute go-arounds when criteria are met (stabilized approach gate not met, energy state out of envelope, traffic con…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 · Article (Journal of Safety Research) Go-around accidents and general aviation safety.
INTRODUCTION Changes in General Aviation (GA) accident rates, specifically in the go-around phase, are examined by comparing the number of accidents, the proportion of fatal accidents, and the proport…
- Semantic Scholar 2021 · Article (Aerospace) Classification and Analysis of Go-Arounds in Commercial Aviation Using ADS-B Data
Go-arounds are a necessary aspect of commercial aviation and are conducted after a landing attempt has been aborted. It is necessary to conduct go-arounds in the safest possible manner, as go-arounds …
- NASA NTRS 2021 · Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes) Go-Around Criteria Refinement for Transport Category Aircraft
Presently, airline pilots are trained to go around if, when lower than 500 ft above the ground, they are outside of a handful of parameters such as airspeed, position, and rate of descent.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Paper Validation of Proposed Go-Around Criteria Under Various Environmental Conditions
This paper evaluates the effects of environmental conditions on touchdown performance under varying approach states and validates proposed go-around criteria developed using data from a previously con…