- Date
- October 14, 1989, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bay City, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1407FCessna 172H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891014040729A
- Case key
- 14580
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to execute a go-around in a timely manner.
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
Pilot made approach to 2600 foot runway maintaining 90 mph approach speed because of concern for an earlier windshear advisory. Touchdown point was further down runway than pilot had planned. Pilot elected to try to stop aircraft on runway. Aircraft departed end of runway, went up and over a dike and landed in river. Aircraft sustained substantial damage. No injuries to pilot or passenger.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1407F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172454902
- Airframe hours
- 2,912
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sparta 140 Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 12, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- 5D3 · Owosso, MI
- Destination
- 3CM · Bay City, MI
- Airport
- 3CM · James Clements, runway 23, 2,345 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 165 total · 66 in this make and model · 8 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MBS, 8 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 N1407F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.