- Date
- January 2, 1985, 16:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Mt Sterling, IL
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9484HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850102000109A
- Case key
- 12983
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - snow coveredFactor
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Overrun
All available runway - not usedFactor
Lowering of flaps - not usedFactor
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Nose over
Analysis
The plt landed long at his home arpt using no flaps with a prevailing tailwind. The 2600 ft turf strip was frozen. During braking the acft skidded off the rwy and struck a snow berm before rolling inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9484H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266175
- Airframe hours
- 685
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Parum Air Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5H4 · Mt Sterling, IL
- Airport
- 5H4 · Brown County, runway 27, 2,600 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 87 total · 33 in this make and model · 56 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- UIN, 17 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.