- Date
- October 27, 1988, 22:10 local (Oct 28, 1988, 03:10 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, MS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N21ERCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881027048609A
- Case key
- 32348
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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
During normal cruise flt a portion of one propeller blade separated. The plt landed the acft in a field & during the landing roll, the acft collided with a haystack. Examination of the propeller blade revealed it separated at blade station 28.5. Metallurgical examination revealed it failed due to fatigue from a nick in the leading edge of the blade.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21ER
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271290
- Airframe hours
- 4,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Chandler, G. P.
- Registered owner
- Callicutt, Kenneth S
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 7, 1988 · 91 hours before
- Departed
- STF · Starkville, MS
- Destination
- OLV · Olive Branch, MS
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,200 total · 400 in this make and model · 4,000 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 200° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CBM, 30 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.