- Date
- March 3, 2022, 18:45 local (Mar 4, 2022, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Pinckneyville, IL · On runway at PJY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N99104Cessna 172P
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20220303000249A
- Case key
- 104734
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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Probable cause
The airplane’s collision with a deer on the runway during landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The flight instructor and student pilot were completing stop-and-go landings at night at an uncontrolled airport. During the second landing, a deer collided with the left rear fuselage and the empennage, then the airplane yawed left. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and taxied off the runway without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left horizontal stabilizer.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N99104
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276403
- Built
- 1985
- Airframe hours
- 15,208.5
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Southern Illinois University
- Registered owner
- Southern Illinois University
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 22, 2021
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PJY · Pinckneyville-Du Quoin, runway 36, 3,999 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 17, 2020
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 725 total · 74 in this make and model · 560 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 39 in the last 30 days · 0.9 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 20
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 22 in this make and model · 2.2 as pilot in command · 3.5 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 40° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- KMDH, 13 nm away
- METAR
- KMDH 040052Z 04009KT 10SM CLR 08/01 A3029 RMK AO2 SLP258 T00830011
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 6, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.