# Accident 20070911829869A: Cessna 172P, Culpeper, VA, September 11, 2007

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 11, 2007, 23:00 local time
- Place: Culpeper, VA
- Airport: Culpeper Regional
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.5255° N, 77.8596° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CULPEPER RGNL (CJR), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.5255&lon=-77.8596&mi=10
- Aircraft: N66717, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N66717) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172P (registry code 2072436, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172P
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 900 total, 500 in this make and model, 75 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070911829869A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) AT NIGHT DURING LANDING THE INSTRUCTOR NOTED THERE WAS A HERD OF DEER ON THE RUNWAY AT CULPEPER REGIONAL AIRPORT. INSTRUCTOR INFORMED STUDENT TO DO A BALK LANDING. DURING THIS PROCEDURE THE AIRCRAFT WAS JUST ABOVE THE RUNWAY, AND A DEER JUMPED UP AND STRUCK THE AIRCRAFT. THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOT ON THE RUNWAY AND THERE WAS NO CONTROLLABLE ISSUES WITH THE AIRCRAFT SO THE AIRCRAFT FLEW BACK TO MANASSAS AIRPORT AND LANDED. THE DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT WAS TO THE RIGHT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER. THE SPAR IS BENT AND THE SKIN IS RIPPED.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

## Other reports on N66717 (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19910425012529A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19910425012529A), Apr 25, 1991: Cessna 172P (N66717), Detroit-Grosse, MI, Substantial damage. Landed long and fast. Overran runway and nosed over. Had quartering tail wind on landing.
- [Accident 19880320005999A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880320005999A), Mar 20, 1988: Cessna 172P (N66717), Sebewaing, MI, Substantial damage. Lost directional control on landing. Went off the runway into a ditch.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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