- Date
- November 8, 1975
- Place
- Lubbock, TX · LUBBOCK, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2459LCessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report November 21, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19751108034769A
- Case key
- 151867
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3049 75/11/8 LUBBOCK,TX CESSNA 172 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 47, 287 TIME - 1930 N2459L PX- 0 0 2 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 13 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TOWN-COUNTRY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SEAGRAVES,TX LUBBOCK,TX TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION OVERSHOOT LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DOWNWIND REMARKS- PLT DIDNT RETRACT FLAPS & DIDNT USE UNICOM.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2459L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Town-Country
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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 N2459L · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB ANC04LA012Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportChugiak, AKThe pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing/takeoff area, and his failure to abort the takeoff, which resulted in an in-flight collision with a stump, and subsequent loss of control. Factors associated with the accident were snow-covered terrain and a…NTSB ANC89LA159Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportSparrevohn, AKThe bucket which was blown into the flight path by a crosswind.