- Date
- March 10, 1976
- Place
- Hughes Springs, TX · HUGHES SPRINGS, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N79444Cessna 172K
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1976
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19760310004249A
- Case key
- 152623
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0315 76/3/10 HUGHES SPRINGS,TX CESSNA 172K CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 36, 353 TIME - 1630 N79444 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 88 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MT.PLEASANT,TX HUGHES SPRINGS,TX TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION OVERSHOOT LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT TERRAIN - WET,SOFT GROUND TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS REMARKS- LND IN FLD ACROSS FRM SISTERS HOME.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N79444
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N79444 · 2
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