- Date
- May 9, 1984, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Buckingham, VA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73787Cessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840509016449A
- Case key
- 6454
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Proper alignment - not maintainedCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Go-around - delayedCause
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
The acft bounced and drifted during the landing flare. The plt added power to go-around and was unable to clear the trees near the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73787
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267679
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Satchidananda Ashram Yogaville
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 13, 1983
- Departed
- IAD · Washington, DC
- Airport
- Lotus Airport, runway 27, 2,700 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 150 in this make and model · 235 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LHY, 30 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.