- Date
- April 25, 1989, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ottawa, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N98923Cessna 172D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890425010609A
- Case key
- 14345
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Probable cause
Student pilot's continuing an approach to landing beyond the point where she could bring the aircraft to a controlled stop on the remaining runway surface.
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
While practicing takeoffs and landings, the student pilot was observed to 'come in way too high' on final approach, and the aircraft touched down on the last 500 feet of the runway. The student pilot was unable to stop the aircraft before it ran off the departure end of the runway and struck a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N98923
- Reported as
- Cessna 172D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276381
- Airframe hours
- 1,586
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ottawa Airmens Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 6, 1988 · 403 hours before
- Departed
- C13 · Ottawa, IL
- Airport
- C13 · Ottawa, runway 5, 3,125 × 50 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 19 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RFD, 50 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.
Other investigations on N98923 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.