Costruzioni Aeronautiche P2002 SIERRA N494ES

Summary

On 16 August 2008 at about 14:05 local time, a Costruzioni Aeronautiche P2002 SIERRA registered N494ES, operated by David C. Rola, was involved in an accident near Woodbine, New Jersey, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

16 August 2008 at 14:05

Classification

Accident

Location

Woodbine, New Jersey, United States

Nearest airport

Woodbine Municipal Airport (1N4)

Coordinates

39.2192, -74.7947

Aircraft

Costruzioni Aeronautiche P2002 SIERRA

Registration

N494ES

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

David C. Rola

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Woodbine → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

MIA08LA166

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during a go-around. Contributing to the accident was the student pilot's degraded emotional/mental state due to stress.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot departed and remained in the traffic pattern intending on performing touch-and-go landings. While on final approach with full flaps extended, flying at 10 feet above ground level, the pilot slowed the airplane to 38 knots indicated airspeed (KIAS), though 40 KIAS is the recommended touchdown speed. He reportedly landed, bounced 10 to 15 feet, and applied power to go-around, and he allowed the airplane to decelerate and stall. The airplane was equipped with an electronic flight instrumentation system (EFIS0 that records parameters every 5 seconds including time, date, indicated airspeed, GPS coordinates, ground speed, pitch, pressure altitude, vertical G’s, roll, heading, and slip. Readout of the EFIS revealed the entire accident flight was recorded. Data downloaded from the EFIS indicated that before the airplane stalled the pitch attitude (in degrees) increased to 11.94. The airplane rolled to the left and impacted grass to the left of the runway. There was no preimpact failure or malfunction of the airplane or its systems. The 75 hour student pilot stated that he was under stress due to an issue related to work, and he should not have been flying that day. He also reported, "he was much less focused than he should have been."

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.