# NTSB MIA06CA005: Cessna 172R, N2621U, Bunnell, FL, October 18, 2005

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: October 18, 2005, 08:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place: Bunnell, FL
- Coordinates: 29.47861, -81.20639
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.4786&lon=-81.2064&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report January 31, 2006
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 62737
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=MIA06CA005
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/62737/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA06CA005

## Probable cause

The pilot's misjudged distance/speed, and his delayed braking during landing, which resulted in the airplane overrunning the runway and impacting a ditch.

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Overrun, landing
  - distance/speed - misjudged, pilot in command (cause)
  - proper touchdown point - not attained, pilot in command (cause)
  - brakes(normal) - delayed, pilot in command (cause)
- On ground/water encounter with terrain/water, landing - roll
  - terrain condition - ditch

## Analysis

In a summary of the accident report written by the pilot, she stated, "I was flying at 80 knots with 20 degrees of flaps on base at 600 feet. On final I was flying at 70 knots with 800 RPM and full flaps (30 degrees). I idled the throttle and began a flare at 50 feet. Everything was fine until the airplane touched down and bounced once with so much speed somewhere in the middle of the Runway. Landing lights off, Transponder on Standby, flaps down to help on rollout. Towards the end of the Runway I applied both brakes, then right brake and entered into the grass."

## Factual narrative

On October 18, 2005, about 0800 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172R, N2621U, registered to McMinn County Aviation, Inc. and operated by Phoenix East Aviation, Inc., ran off the end of runway 29 during landing at Flagler County Airport, Bunnell, FL. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. The airplane incurred substantial damage and the student pilot was not injured. The flight originated about 0730 from Daytona Beach International Airport, Daytona Beach, FL.

In a summary of the accident written by the pilot, she states, "I was flying at 80 knots with 20 degrees of flaps on base at 600 feet. On final I was flying at 70 knots with 800 RPM and full flaps (30 degrees). I idled the throttle and began a flare at 50 feet. Everything was fine until the airplane touched down and bounced once with so much speed somewhere in the middle of the Runway. Landing lights off, Transponder on Standby, flaps down to help on rollout. Towards the end of the Runway I applied both brakes, then right brake and entered into the grass."

## Aircraft

- Registration: N2621U (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Cessna 172R
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 17280558
- Engines: Lycoming IO-360-L2A reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Operator: Phoenix East Aviation Inc
- Registered owner: McMinn County Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: KDAB, Daytona Beach, FL
- Destination: X47, Bunnell, FL
- Airport: X47, Flagler County Airport, runway 29

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Student pilot; age 24; student; medical: class 1; flight hours: 20 total, 20 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days, 20 in the last 30 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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