- Date
- August 2, 1991, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Eveleth, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9377TCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910802034299A
- Case key
- 15150
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain the proper descent rate and adequate airspeed during the approach. A factor related to the accident is the lack of recent total experience.
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 pilot had a private, single engine land rating and was enroute to take his single engine sea flight check. He delayed at a lake three miles from his destination to practice some takeoffs and landings. While attempting a power off landing he got slow and high on final and did not add power in time to stop the sink rate resulting in a hard landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9377T
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 50877
- Airframe hours
- 5,705
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth L. Heinsch
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 15, 1991 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- 8Y4 · Lino Lakes, MN
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 127 total · 31 in this make and model · 98 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- H1B, 20 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 N9377T · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.