# NTSB ERA21LA214: Cessna 172, N6344E, Johnson City, TN, May 12, 2021 - Type: NTSB accident investigation - Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report - Date: May 12, 2021, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC) - Place: Johnson City, TN · 704 Claremont Road - Coordinates: 36.363717, -82.309026 (estimated) - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.3637&lon=-82.3090&mi=10 - Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping) - Defining event: [Landing: Landing area overshoot](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/380) - Highest injury: No injuries - Injuries: 1 uninjured - Status: Completed - Report: Approved by Office Director - Investigation class: Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish - NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation - Parties: FAA / FSDO - NTSB case key (mKey): 103078 - NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA21LA214 - NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/103078/pdf - NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=103078 - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA21LA214 ## Probable cause The student pilot’s excessive airspeed during the landing approach and his delayed remedial action, which resulted in the airplane striking obstacles during an aborted landing. Contributing was the pilot’s decision to land with a tailwind. ## Findings NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause. - [Info processing/decision: identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510): Personnel issues › Action/decision · Pilot (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 172, 5 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510/cases.md?model=2072402), [All aircraft, 559 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510/cases.md) - [Action: delayed action](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041025): Personnel issues › Action/decision · Pilot (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 172, 8 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041025/cases.md?model=2072402), [All aircraft, 894 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041025/cases.md) - [Performance/control parameters: airspeed](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062010): Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability · Not attained/maintained (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 172, 8 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062010/cases.md?model=2072402), [All aircraft, 1,681 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01062010/cases.md) - [Wind: tailwind](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03034015): Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena · Decision related to condition (probable cause); cases with it: [Cessna 172, 3 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03034015/cases.md?model=2072402), [All aircraft, 594 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03034015/cases.md) ## Sequence of events The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened. - [Landing: Landing area overshoot](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/380) (defining event); cases with it: [Cessna 172, 3 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/380/sequence.md?model=2072402), [All aircraft, 400 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/380/sequence.md) - [Landing-aborted after touchdown: Collision during takeoff/land](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/490); cases with it: [Cessna 172, 8 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/490/sequence.md?model=2072402), [All aircraft, 1,309 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/490/sequence.md) ## Analysis The student pilot was returning to his home airport from a cross-country solo flight. The winds were favoring the opposite direction runway, and he touched down “a little fast” with 20º of flaps extended about 1,000 feet down the 3,000-foot-long runway. He applied the brakes and the airplane veered to the right (he thought the left brake had failed). He then shut off the carburetor heat, retracted the flaps, and added power to abort the landing with about 300 feet of pavement remaining. He was able to get airborne before the end of the runway but was in ground effect. The airplane flew over a road, impacted a tree with the right wing while airborne, hit a truck, and the corner of a detached garage. The airplane then rolled a short distance, nosed over, and came to rest. The airplane’s fuselage, wings, and empennage were substantially damaged during the accident sequence. Postaccident testing revealed that both the left and right wheel brakes were functional. ## Aircraft - Registration: [N6344E](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6344E), registered now, S/N 46444, built 1959 (OpenAirDocs) - Reported make and model: CESSNA 172 - Registry model: [Cessna 172](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172) (registry code 2072402) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry engine: [Continental 0-300 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-300-series) (registry code 17022, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs) - Category: Airplane - Serial number: 46444 - Year built: 1959 - Airframe hours: 7736 - Engines: Continental O-300-A 145 horsepower reciprocating - Damage: Substantial damage - Flight: Instructional, Part 91 - Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal - Last inspection: Annual, May 12, 2021 - Departed: GCY, Greeneville, TN - Destination: Same as departure - Airport: 0A4, Johnson City, runway 22, 3,000 × 50 ft, asphalt - Equipment: Unknown ## Flight crew As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names. - Pilot; age 45; injuries: none; student; medical: class 3, without waivers/limitations; seat: left; restraint: lap only; flight hours: 40.2 total, 40.2 in this make and model, 32 in the last 90 days, 13.8 in the last 30 days, 2 in the last 24 hours ## Weather - Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day - Wind: 150° at 4 knots - Visibility: 10 statute miles - Lowest ceiling: 9,000 ft broken - Temperature: 57 °F, dew point 36 °F - Altimeter: 30.22 inHg - Observed at: KTRI, 8 nm away - METAR: KTRI 122153Z 15004KT 10SM BKN090 14/02 A3022 RMK AO2 SLP219 T01440022 ## FAA reports on this event (1) The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs). - [Accident 20210512009719A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20210512009719A), May 12, 2021: Cessna 172, Johnson City, TN, Substantial damage. On landing student pilot indicated he had no left brake, after taxiing down runway decided to apply power and do a go-around. The aircraft did not gain enough… ## Docket (5 files) The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2021, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=103078. 128 MB in all. - Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (item 1, PDF, 11 pages, 4.9 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=12561315&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Shawn%20Miller%206120_Redacted-Rel.pdf - Witness statements and interview summaries (item 2, PDF, 9 pages, 1.8 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=12561565&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Witness%20Statements%20and%20Interview%20Summaries_Redacted-Rel.pdf - Photo array (item 3, PDF, 16 pages, 15.4 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=12561124&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Photo%20Array-Rel.pdf - Security camera video 1 (item 4, AVI, 7.7 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=12572271&FileExtension=avi&FileName=Video%201-Rel.avi - Security camera video 2 (item 5, MOV, 98.6 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=12572281&FileExtension=MOV&FileName=Video%202-Rel.MOV From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.