- Date
- October 16, 1983, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Albany, KY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2949HCessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6373
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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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - unfavorable windFactor
Flight controls - improper use ofCause
Stall - inadvertent
Analysis
The plt stated that just prior to touchdown the acft encountered an updraft which lifted the acft from 2 or 3 ft above the rwy to about 20 ft where the acft stalled & fell to the rwy. A witness stated that the acft was 40 ft above the rwy before it dropped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2949H
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700925
- Airframe hours
- 432
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Len Construction Co. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1982
- Departed
- BWG · Bowling Green, KY
- Airport
- 441 · Spring Creek, runway 17, 2,300 × 52 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 415 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LOZ, 58 nm away