- Date
- September 8, 1983, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Glens Falls, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30724Cessna 177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830908047039A
- Case key
- 35273
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Touch-and-go - performedCause
Flare - misjudgedFactor
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Aborted landing - performedFactor
Go-around - initiatedFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Go-around - inadvertent
Nose over
Analysis
During the landing the acft bounced and the plt decided to go-around. As power was added and carburetor heat removed, the acft veered off the rwy to the left and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30724
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177014224
- Airframe hours
- 1,262
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360A1F6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John F. Kenny, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 31, 1983 · 26 hours before
- Airport
- GFL · Warren Co., runway 19, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 75 total · 5 in this make and model · 36 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 5 knots, gusting 8
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °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.