- Date
- August 5, 1989, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Vincennes, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N736JMCessna R172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890805027659A
- Case key
- 14397
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 pilot had excessive airspeed, misjudged the landing distance, and did not go around. Contributing factors were: the pilot misread wind information and selected the wrong runway. Also, the tailwind and ditch were considered to be contributing factors.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N736JM
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1722564
- Airframe hours
- 932
- Engine
- Continental IO-360, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Martin, Chester A.
- Registered owner
- Martin, Chester A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 24, 1989 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- DCY · Washington, IN
- Destination
- OEA
- Airport
- OEA · O'Neal, runway 9, 3,450 × 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
- 76
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,030 total · 200 in this make and model · 983 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EW, 39 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.