- Date
- December 28, 1992, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Little Rock, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64943Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921228051919A
- Case key
- 18633
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Probable cause
The certified flight instructor's failure to attain the proper touchdown point.
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 initial ILS was flown by the student pilot resulting in a missed approach. A second approach was flown by the CFI to runway 04L. When the airplane broke out the CFI saw runway 36, landed long, and over ran the end colliding with a fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64943
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275657
- Airframe hours
- 4,100
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D25, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Stramel Avn, Inc
- Registered owner
- Stramel Avn, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 10, 1992 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- ADS · Dallas, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LIT · Adams Field, runway 36, 5,124 × 150 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,157 total · 350 in this make and model · 1,968 as pilot in command · 129 in the last 90 days · 76 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 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 N64943 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.