- Date
- June 17, 1989, 14:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Banning, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N29339Cessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890617015979A
- Case key
- 26430
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight planning/preparation by the pilot.
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 temperature was at least 100 degrees f, the airport elevation was 2,219 feet MSL, and the density altitude was approximately 5,400 feet. The pilot was making a touch and go landing and after takeoff, the airplane would not climb. The pilot said the engine sounded normal but the airplane felt as if it were mushing. He decided to abort the takeoff and land on the runway overrun. After touchdown, the nosewheel hit a six inch high ridge of sand and the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29339
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700822
- Airframe hours
- 1,409
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Frank Burnham
- Registered owner
- Schneider, Ernest
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 13, 1988 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- BNG
- Airport
- BNG · Municipal, runway 26, 5,200 × 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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,705 total · 48 in this make and model · 3,643 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 100 °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.