- Date
- March 5, 1985, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lockhart, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4679BCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850305008039A
- Case key
- 21688
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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.
Undershoot
Distance - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
The pilot was practicing short field landings at a private landing strip, got too low on the approach & snagged his horizontal stabilizer on a tree stump about 10 feet above ground level.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4679B
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31577
- Airframe hours
- 2,132
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- H.Y. Price III
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 29, 1984 · 184 hours before
- Departed
- SRZ · San Marcos, TX
- Airport
- Private Strip, runway 36, 2,000 × ft, dirt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.