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Event NYC93LA101

1993-06-06 LINCOLN PARK, New Jersey, United States Airport · N07 None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N97055

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172P

Year of manufacture

1984 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19840125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD86CA

Registrant of record

DAE AVIATION ENTERPRISES CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE, WHICH RESULTED IN A GROUND SWERVE AND A COLLISION WITH TREES.

Factual narrative

THE STUDENT PILOT WAS ON A SOLO FLIGHT PRACTICING TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS. THIS PRACTICE WAS BEING CONDUCTED WITH A 5 TO 8 KNOT LEFT CROSS WIND. THE PILOT INDICATED THAT ON HIS LAST LANDING, AT TOUCHDOWN, A GUST OF WIND FROM THE RIGHT CAUSED THE AIRPLANE TO VEER LEFT OFF THE RUNWAY AT A 45 DEGREE ANGLE. THE PILOT MANEUVERED THE AIRPLANE AROUND PARKED AIRPLANES AND AN AUTOMOBILE, THEN IMPACTED A TREE LINE. ATTEMPTS TO BRAKE THE AIRPLANE TO A STOP HAD BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL ON THE GRASS SURFACE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1993_NYC93LA101.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (icing). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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