- Date
- August 6, 1983, 06:45 local (11:45 UTC)
- Place
- Elberta, AL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9GHCessna 195A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830806039459A
- Case key
- 6157
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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.
Overrun
Terrain condition - wetFactor
Proper touchdown point - exceededCause
Terrain condition - downhillFactor
Airspeed - excessiveCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Analysis
The acft ran off the departure end of the rwy into a ditch during landing. The landing was on a private airstrip with a wet grass rwy that sloped downhill in the direction of landing for the last 1/3 of the rwy. The acft landed about a quarter of the way down the rwy and continued off the end into a 6 ft deep ditch. There were no injuries to the 4 occupants.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9GH
- Reported as
- Cessna 195A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7714
- Airframe hours
- 5,340
- Engine
- Jacobs R755, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lewis A. Welzel Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1983 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- PNS · Pensacola, FL
- Destination
- BTR · Baton Rouge, LA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Horak, runway 18, 2,500 × ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,900 total · 63 in this make and model · 3,559 as pilot in command · 208 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PNS, 19 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.