- Date
- July 13, 1992, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Nacogdoches, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3425TCessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920713030069A
- Case key
- 18532
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. Factors were the inadvertent porpoise of the airplane and the pilot's lack of total experience in the type airplane.
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 airplane landed long and porpoised after the flaps were retracted. The pilot applied about 2 deconds of throttle then went to idle when he saw trees approximately 1,000 feet ahead of the airplane. The airplane porpoised again and the pilot lost directional control. It veered off the runway, went through heavy brush, and impacted a tree with the left wing. The pilot stated he had landed long because the airplane was too high and too fast during the approach to the 3,100 feet airstrip. He estimated he touched down approximately 1,800 feet down the runway. This left 1,300 feet of runway remaining plus 500 feet of safety area before the tree line.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3425T
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700725
- Airframe hours
- 2,550
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hamblin, David W.
- Registered owner
- Hamblin, David W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 5, 1991 · 225 hours before
- Airport
- TE52 · Just Plane Fun, runway 2, 3,100 × 80 ft, grass/turf
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 96 total · 4 in this make and model · 70 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N3425T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.