- Date
- August 4, 1990, 12:55 local (19:55 UTC)
- Place
- Trinity Center, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4205LCessna 172G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900804030179A
- Case key
- 26877
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive airspeed and his failure to touchdown at the proper location on the runway.
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 pilot reported that the wind socks at the destination (uncontrolled) airport were pointing in opposite directions. The pilot landed on the 3,200-foot-long runway, overran its departure end, collided with a ditch and nosed over. The pilot wrote in his 'accident report form' that he 'came in too high & fast,' and that he should have made a go-around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4205L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17254274
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jerome Weinbaum, M.D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1989
- Departed
- CIC · Chico, CA
- Airport
- 086 · Trinity Center, runway 32, 3,200 × 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
- 67
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,148 total · 31 in this make and model · 900 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.