NYC93LA051 · Cessna 172
Lincoln Park Aviation Cessna 172 · Accident: overrun during landing
From Lincoln Park Airport (N07) to Newton Airport (3N5)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC93LA051
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 172
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N54102
- Operator
- Lincoln Park Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Lincoln Park Airport (N07), Lincoln Park, NJTo Newton Airport (3N5), Newton, NJ
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Overrun
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aborted landing, not performed
- Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Andover, NJ, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE STUDENT PILOT WAS CONDUCTING A SOLO CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT. HE WAS LANDING ON RUNWAY 03. HE SAID, 'JUST BEFORE TOUCHDOWN A GUSTING TAILWIND CAUSED THE...PLANE TO FLOAT ABOVE THE...RUNWAY...I WAS ABLE TO TOUCHDOWN WITH APPROXIMATELY TWO THIRDS OF THE RUNWAY AVAILABLE...APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET FROM THE END OF THE RUNWAY I POWERED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO GO-AROUND. IT WAS TOO LATE [AND] THE PLANE [STRUCK] THE WATER.'
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ABORT THE LANDING WHICH RESULTED IN A OVERRUN OF THE RUNWAY. CONTRIBUTING WAS THE PILOT'S MISJUDGEMENT OF DISTANCE AND AN IMPROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC93LA051
- Event ID
- 20001211X16232
- Case number
- NYC93LA051
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b42703b54945345f929ff6d9c03c38861c1978e201839eed9b3189ae6ac852e8; retrieved 2026-09-23T02:25:19.238Z.