- Date
- May 10, 2002, 21:15 local (May 11, 2002, 02:15 UTC)
- Place
- Livingston, TN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8608BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report February 25, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Nashville FSDO
- FAA report
- 20020510009329A
- Case key
- 54710
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Probable cause
The pilot failure to maintain flying speed, followed by a subsequent stall.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
According to the pilot, he was on short final to land, when he realized that the airplane was short of the runway surface. When the pilot pulled back on the yoke the airplane stalled and collided with the ground.
Factual narrative
On May 10, 2002, at 2115 central daylight time, a Cessna 172, N8608B, registered to and owned by the pilot, collided with the ground while on short final to land at a private airstrip in Livingston, Tennessee. The flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplane was substantially damaged, and the private pilot and passenger received minor injuries. The flight departed Livingston, Tennessee, at 2100.
According to the pilot, he was on short final to land on runway 03, when he realized that his touch down would be short of the runway surface, as the airspeed indicator approached 65 knots. The pilot did not hear the stall warning horn, but his airspeed continued to decrease until the airplane stalled. The pilot did not recall if he added full power, but he did advance the throttle forward. The pilot stated, that there was a "gully" below him, and his first reaction was to continue to pull back on the yoke to avoid descending into the "gully". The pilot never recovered from the stall and the airplane collided with the ground.
Examination of the airplane revealed, the right main landing gear separated from the fuselage. The left landing main gear was bent aft towards the horizontal stabilizer. The propeller blades were curled aft towards the firewall. The pilot and passenger sides of the airframe were buckled. The pilot did not report a flight control or mechanical problem with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8608B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36308
- Airframe hours
- 4,000
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stanley David Carr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 3, 2002 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- 8A3 · Livingston, GA
- Airport
- 8A3 · Livingston Muni, runway 21, 3,998 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 110 total · 12 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 30° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- KBNA
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 25, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 301 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.