- Date
- May 29, 1988, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Milford, DE
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N35253Cessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 21, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11416
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
The plt stated the landing apch was too fast and the acft bounced on touchdown. The plt stabilized the acft and attempted another touchdown, however, the acft bounced again. Having used over half the rwy by this time, the plt elected to abort the landing by adding full power and retracting the flaps. The acft flew off the left side of the rwy and the right wing contacted a post. It then traveled across a 4-lane hwy where it contacted a concrete post in a hotel parking lot and came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35253
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702292
- Airframe hours
- 3,114
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- K.D.M. Partnership
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 1987 · 93 hours before
- Departed
- N76 · Annville, PA
- Airport
- N98 · Milford Airpark, runway 8, 2,340 × 100 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 86 total · 56 in this make and model · 40 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F