- Date
- September 15, 1986, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Westminster, MD
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N34251Cessna 177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11258
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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.
Analysis
Five inches of one propeller blade tip separated during cruise flight at an altitude of 3,500 ft MSL. The imbalance resulted in a severe vibration and a partial power loss. Unable to maintain altitude, the plt set up for a forced landing at clearview airport. The aircraft touched down midway down the runway, continued off the end, contacted a ditch and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34251
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17701735
- Airframe hours
- 1,900
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James M. West
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1986 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- M54 · Charleston, WV
- Destination
- LNS · Lancaster, PA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 2W2 · Clearview, runway 13, 1,830 × 30 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 473 total · 221 in this make and model · 429 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 14,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWI, 24 nm away
Other investigations on N34251 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.