- Date
- August 30, 1983, 10:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Sedona, AZ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1845QCessna C-177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830830045449A
- Case key
- 23840
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt stated that instead of using the customary 80 kt approach speed he used 110 KTS with 30 deg of flaps. On short final he was still high but decided to land anyway. He forced the acft onto the rwy & the acft began to porpoise. Unableto recover from the porpoising, he executed a go-around, inadvertently retracting the flaps to 0 deg instead of 10 deg. The acft mushed into brush in a nose high attitude. The plt later stated he had no previous experience landing on arpts atop mesas, & had not practiced go-around procedures since obtaining his certificate almost two years before. Rwy 3 has a 1.9% upward slope. According to arpt personnel, because of this rwy's slope, it is generally used even when slight tailwind conditions exist.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1845Q
- Reported as
- Cessna C-177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0245
- Airframe hours
- 1,216
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Drennan A. Clark
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 16, 1982 · 51 hours before
- Departed
- 004 · Carson City, NV
- Airport
- SEZ · Sedona, runway 3, 5,135 × 75 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 124 total · 124 in this make and model · 92 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 135° at 3 knots, gusting 5
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
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