- Date
- May 28, 1997, 17:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Perry, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N13375Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19970528012029A
- Case key
- 3851
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Probable cause
the pilot misjudged his distance/airspeed during the approach to land, and touched down long on the runway.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot had flown about one hour and was returning to the departure airport for a full stop landing. During the landing phase of the flight, the airplane touched down at the mid-field point of the 2600 foot long grass runway, bounced, 'floated,' and then touched down again. The pilot reported that the ground roll-out speed was fast, and he could not stop the airplane on the runway. The airplane rolled off the end of the runway, and collided with a ten by twenty foot utility building. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilot. According to aircraft performance data, the airplane would require approximately 520 feet ground roll for a normal landing and approximately 1250 feet of runway for a landing over a 50 foot obstacle.
Factual narrative
On May 28, 1997, at 1725 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172M, N13375, collided with a utility building on the departure end of runway 18, at the Middle Georgia Airpark, in Perry, Georgia. The personal flight operated under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan filed. Visual weather conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplane sustained substantial damage, and the pilot and his passenger were not injured. The flight departed Perry, Georgia, at 1630.
The pilot had flown about one hour and was returning to the departure airport for a full stop landing. During the landing phase of the flight, the airplane touched down at the mid-field point of the 2600 foot long grass runway, bounced, "floated", and then touched down again. The pilot reported that the ground roll out speed was fast, and he could not stop the airplane on the runway. According to the pilot, the airplane rolled off the end of the runway, and collided with a ten by twenty foot utility building. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilot.
According to aircraft performance data, the airplane would require approximately 520 feet ground roll for a normal landing and approximately 1250 feet of runway for a landing over a 50 foot obstacle.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13375
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172-62711
- Airframe hours
- 2,130
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mark Arness
- Registered owner
- Norman E. Lasater
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1996 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Airport
- 68MG · Middle Georgia Airpark, runway 18, 2,600 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 350 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCN, 32 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N13375 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.