- Date
- October 15, 1994, 13:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Laytonville, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7577VCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 12, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19941015034969A
- Case key
- 28963
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Probable cause
were the pilot's failure to maintain the proper airspeed and 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 pilot was completing a visual flight rules personal flight. The pilot failed to make the initial landing and executed a go-around. On the second landing, the airplane landed long, overran the runway and went down an embankment.
Factual narrative
On October 15, 1994, at 1300 hours Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 177RG, N7577V, overran the end of the runway at a privately owned airstrip, Clark Ranch, near Laytonville, California. The pilot was completing a visual flight rules personal flight. The airplane, registered to and operated by the pilot, sustained substantial damage. Neither the certificated private pilot nor his passenger was injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The flight originated at Smith Ranch Airport, San Rafael, California, at 1130 hours.
The pilot said in the aircraft accident report that he executed a go-around on the initial approach to the airport. He said that on the second landing he could not stop the airplane and it overran the end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7577V
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0868
- Airframe hours
- 1,937
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Herman E. Frenteel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 16, 1993 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- CA35 · San Rafael, CA
- Airport
- Clark Ranch, runway 34, 2,000 × 50 ft, dirt
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,118 total · 900 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 22 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.