- Date
- May 23, 1998, 08:35 local (12:35 UTC)
- Place
- Brogue, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1293CCessna 177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 30, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19980523023579A
- Case key
- 39565
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Probable cause
failure of the pilot to maintaining proper runway alignment during an aborted landing (go-around). Related factors were: the pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, inadvertent porpoise, and the small trees encroaching into the runaway environment.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot landed the airplane nose wheel first on runway 27. The airplane then started to porpoise, so he executed a go-around (balked landing). During the maneuver, the airplane drifted left and struck two small trees that were encroaching into the runway environment. The airplane came to rest upright in a corn field, 40 feet left of Runway 27.
Factual narrative
On May 23, 1998, at 0835 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 177, N1293C, was substantially damaged during an aborted landing to Baublitz Commercial Airport, Brogue, Pennsylvania. The certificated private pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The personal flight departed Reigle Field Airport, Palmyra, Pennsylvania, approximately 0735.
According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector, the pilot stated the airplane landed nose wheel first and started to porpoise, so he executed a go around. During the maneuver, the airplane drifted left and struck two small trees before coming to rest in a corn field, 40 feet left of Runway 27.
During a telephone interview the pilot stated, he had a little right aileron, and a little right rudder in when the airplane impacted the two trees on the left side of Runway 27. He added, "there were no mechanical problems with the airplane."
In the NTSB Form 6120.1/2, the pilot stated that Runway 27 was sloped approximately 8 percent towards the south, about 1/4 of the way down the runway. The pilot provided a diagram depicting two trees approximately 1/4 of the way down Runway 27 with over 50 percent of their surface area encroaching into the runway environment. In addition, he showed the wind from approximately 330 degrees at 8 knots.
The pilot reported 280 hours of total fight experience on his last FAA medical application dated June 7, 1997.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1293C
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702697
- Airframe hours
- 3,085
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leon K. Saufley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 58N · Palmura, PA
- Destination
- 9W8
- Airport
- 9W8 · Baublitz, runway 27, 2,200 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 230 total · 230 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LNS, 230 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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