- Date
- October 7, 1992, 17:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Wash. Ct. House, OH
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8849UCessna 172F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921007041279A
- Case key
- 37253
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Probable cause
An inadvertent stall after the pilot failed to attain flying speed due to a premature liftoff.
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 pilot departed from a grass strip with grass 3 to 5 inches tall. He failed to obtain flying speed due to the tall grass and 'pulled' the airplane into the air. While flying just above the 6 to 8 foot tall corn off the end of the runway, the stall warning horn sounded, followed by the left wing dropping and the airplane descended into the corn field. The airplane came to rest upside down.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8849U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17252761
- Airframe hours
- 1,669
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stanley E. Melvin
- Registered owner
- Stanley E. Melvin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 3, 1992 · 27 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Armbrust Field
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,188 total · 175 in this make and model · 919 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.