- Date
- July 12, 1990, 22:15 local (Jul 13, 1990, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- Arlington, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2022QCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900712027609A
- Case key
- 23161
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged airplane attitude during the landing flare.
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.
Analysis
The pilot was distracted by a landing light from an airplane on the ground as he was attempting to land at a airport on a bright night. A hard landing resulted and the airplane slid off the landing surface sideways and struck an unknown object.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2022Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0422
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mollerstrom, Anders K.E.
- Registered owner
- Harrison, Pat
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 7, 1989
- Departed
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- F54 · Arlington Muni, runway 34
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 251 total · 172 in this make and model · 187 as pilot in command · 139 in the last 90 days · 91 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.