- Date
- November 25, 1990, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Ayr, IA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N13747Cessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901125051789A
- Case key
- 14958
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Probable cause
Proper touch-down point not attained and go-around delayed by the PIC. Contributing factors were a downwind, crosswind, weather evaluation misjudged, wrong runway selected and lack of total experience by the PIC.
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
The plt said that on his second attempt to land, in a quartering downwind environment, he elected to attempt a go-around which resulted in a collision with a tree, then the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13747
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 170002466
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Economic Aero Club
- Departed
- MHE · Mitchell, SD
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 1Y3 · Mount Ayr, runway 17, 2,800 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 76 total · 7 in this make and model · 36 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- 3OI, 15 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.