- Date
- October 3, 1982, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sugarland, TX
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4845JCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821003050879A
- Case key
- 72752
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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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.
Overrun
Distance - misjudgedFactor
Airspeed - misjudgedFactor
Aborted landing - not selectedCause
Go-around - not selectedCause
Analysis
After overshooting his first approach, the plt touched down at midfield & ran off the end of the rwy into a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4845J
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273685
- Airframe hours
- 1,761
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cliff Hyde Flying Service Inc.
- Registered owner
- Houston Tong Service Inc.
- Departed
- T41 · La Porte, TX
- Destination
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- SGR · Hull Field, runway 17, 3,260 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 95 total · 19 in this make and model · 51 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 185 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.