- Date
- January 20, 1985, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Endicott, NY
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9940ZCessna 206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850120047739A
- Case key
- 35823
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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
The plt stated that the eng RPM dropped to idle when he made his second pwr reduction on downwind in preparation for landing. The throttle could not be pushed in when an attempt to add pwr was made. The acft touched down short of the rwy and came to rest aprx 320 ft from the apch end of the rwy. Cause of the throttle control malfunction was not determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9940Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20606759
- Airframe hours
- 114
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Miller Aviation Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 5, 1984 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Destination
- Endicott, NY
- Airport
- N17 · Tri-Cities, runway 21, 3,500 × 100 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,729 total · 7 in this make and model · 1,564 as pilot in command · 171 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 20 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 1 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BGM
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.