- Date
- April 12, 1989, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Eureka, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6253DCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890412011159A
- Case key
- 26378
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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Probable cause
The improper in-flight planning by the instructor pilot when he allowed the private pilot student to land long. Additionally, the instructor delayed remedial action until the runway overrun was inevitable.
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 student was performing a short field apch during the dual instructional flight and the acft was high on final apch. The instructor said he believed the landing could still be completed. The acft touched down at the rwy midpoint, ran off the end of the rwy and nosed over. The instructor also said he realized additional braking was needed during the landing roll. A go-around was not attempted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6253D
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 72668
- Airframe hours
- 2,425
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Northern Air
- Registered owner
- Northern Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 8, 1989 · 59 hours before
- Departed
- EKA
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 019 · Kneeland, runway 15, 2,210 × 50 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,199 total · 488 in this make and model · 2,910 as pilot in command · 154 in the last 90 days · 54 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.