- Date
- October 1, 1989, 11:08 local (15:08 UTC)
- Place
- Manistique, MI
- Injuries
- 4 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N102ATCessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891001042359A
- Case key
- 14570
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Probable cause
A delayed by the pilot in going around and his failure to obtain adequate airspeed before fully retracting the flaps, which allowed the aircraft to mush. The contributing factors were: the pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point during the landing and the transmission wire.
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
After landing long, the plt elected to go-around. He retracted the flaps to full up & the acft stopped climbing & started settling with the stall warning horn sounding. The plt observed wires in his flt path & rotated the plane to an attitude which would allow the wire to strike the acft's belly, rather than across the windshield. After the wire strike, the acft descended out of control & collided with the terrain. According to the go-around procedure in the flt manual, the flaps should have been retracted to only 20 deg until the acft had accelerated to 75 mph, then further flap retraction should have been performed slowly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N102AT
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17701283
- Airframe hours
- 2,873
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kodiak Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Kodiak Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 22, 1988 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- GYG · Greyling, MI
- Airport
- ISQ · Schoolcraft County, runway 19, 2,500 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 276 total · 10 in this make and model · 89 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- ISQ, 1 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 N102AT · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.