- Date
- February 10, 2007, 19:00 local (Feb 11, 2007, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pinckneyville, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9478ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA-Springfield FSDO
- Case key
- 65389
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
Presence of a deer on the runway resulting in an inadvertent collision during the landing roll.
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 airplane was substantially damaged when it struck a deer while landing. The pilot stated: "As I landed . . . a deer struck my right horizontal stabilizer [causing] structural damage on the right stabilizer." Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot was not injured.
Factual narrative
The airplane was substantially damaged when it struck a deer while landing. The pilot stated: "As I landed . . . a deer struck my right horizontal stabilizer [causing] structural damage on the right stabilizer." Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot was not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9478E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17272276
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BUU · Burlington, WI
- Destination
- PJY · Pinckneyville, IL
- Airport
- PJY · Pinckneyville-Du Quoin, runway 18, 4,000 × 60 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
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 1, 2006
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 100 in this make and model · 110 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night