- Date
- October 4, 2022, 11:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Coleman, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N16185Cessna 177B
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- 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
- FAA report
- 20221004015929A
- Case key
- 106057
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain an appropriate final approach airspeed, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with a fence.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
According to the pilot, while landing at an unfamiliar airport, he landed with excessive airspeed and touched down too far down the runway to safely stop. The airplane subsequently departed the grass runway and impacted a fence. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N16185
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702491
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 3,776.5
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ness Richard J
- Registered owner
- Ness Richard J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 19, 2022
- Departed
- CTJ · Carrollton, GA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 2FA6 · Freeflight Intl, runway 20, 4,100 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 20, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 257 total · 252 in this make and model · 202 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KLEE, 14 nm away
- METAR
- KLEE 041453Z 04013KT 10SM SCT045 23/17 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP172 T02280167 51010
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 6, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.