- Date
- March 26, 1989, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Vineland, NJ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N758BZCessna 172XP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890326004769A
- Case key
- 36390
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of speed & distance during landing which resulted in the proper touchdown point to be exceeded. The runway conditions were contributing factors.
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 Cessna 172XP was on a local pleasure flight with a private pilot and three passengers. The landing surface was grass which the pilot described as soft, wet, and rough. The aircraft was unable to stop prior to the end and went through a drainage ditch which collapsed the nose landing gear and the aircraft flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N758BZ
- Reported as
- Cessna 172XP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1722977
- Airframe hours
- 1,550
- Engine
- Continental IO-360K, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rudolph Meckel, Jr.
- Registered owner
- Caesar Equipment
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 9, 1989 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- 29N · Vineland, NJ
- Airport
- 29N · Kroelinger, runway 10, 2,150 × 190 ft, grass/turf
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 514 total · 400 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.