- Date
- September 9, 1992, 13:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Boone, NC
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N19797Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920909035629A
- Case key
- 8662
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to abort the take off, and his abrupt pull up with insufficient airspeed to continue flight. Factors were the inadequate airspeed and the inadvertent 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
The pilot reported that when he aligned the airplane with the runway for take off, he saw a person beside it, near a mulch pile. His report inferred that as the take off roll began, he noted that the figure was a deer. The deer began running parallel with the take off path, then veered toward the airplane. The pilot pulled up and went over the deer. However, there was insufficient airspeed to continue flight. When the airplane came back down onto the runway, it veered off of the runway to the left. He was unable to stop the airplane before it collided with a truck and an airport storage hangar.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N19797
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17260760
- Airframe hours
- 3,600
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Deal, Michael D., doing business as
- Registered owner
- Sawotka, Jerry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 28, 1992 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- 5A3 · Blowing Rock, runway 13, 2,668 × 45 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 19 in this make and model · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HKY, 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.