- Date
- October 28, 1983, 19:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Port Huron, MI
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1453UCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831028055759A
- Case key
- 12489
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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 that shortly after touchdown several deer came out of the nearby woods & stopped on the left side of the rwy. He attempted to slow the acft down while staying on the right side of the rwy but went off the rwy & collided with a raised concrete edge of a taxiway. The landing was on rwy 5 & the winds were gusting 30 KTS from 330 deg.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1453U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267120
- Airframe hours
- 1,055
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E20, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth J. Wilhelm
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 15, 1983
- Departed
- DTWW · Detroit, MI
- Airport
- PHN · St. Clair, runway 5, 5,105 × 100 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 898 total · 475 in this make and model · 42 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 330° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- PHN, 12 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.