- Date
- March 10, 1985, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Markham, TX
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N52920Cessna 172-N-II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21692
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.
In flight collision with object
Object - fenceFactor
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Airport facilities,wind direction indicator - unavailable
Wrong runway - selectedCause
Raising of flaps - not performedCause
Clearance - misjudgedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
The accident occurred on go-around from an inadvertant down-wind approach to a crop duster strip. The pilot failed to retract the flaps, and the heavily-laden aircraft could not accelerate to climb. The pilot elected to fly under powerlines at the end of the runway but collided with a wire fence. The nose gear collapsed after ground contact, and the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52920
- Reported as
- Cessna 172-N-II
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172-72497
- Airframe hours
- 1,617
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Als Services Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 14, 1984 · 69 hours before
- Departed
- T26 · Bay City, TX
- Airport
- Markham, runway 36, 3,000 × ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 191 total · 42 in this make and model · 125 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PSX, 18 nm away