# NTSB SEA89LA025: Cessna 177RG, N51386, Monroe, WA, December 15, 1988

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: December 14, 1988, 17:10 local (Dec 15, 1988, 01:10 UTC)
- Place: Monroe, WA
- Coordinates: 47.869617, -121.880455 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=47.8696&lon=-121.8805&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report November 7, 1989
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 40962
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=SEA89LA025
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/40962/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA89LA025

## Analysis

PLT WAS LNDG ON UNLIT STRIP (CENTER REFLECTORS) AT NIGHT AND ALLOWED ACFT TO DRIFT LEFT ON LNDG ROLL. ACFT CONTACTED DIRT MOUND ADJACENT TO RUNWAY.

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- On ground/water encounter with terrain/water, landing - roll
  - terrain condition - berm (contributing factor)
  - directional control - not maintained, pilot in command (cause)
  - light condition - night (contributing factor)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N51386](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N51386), registered now, S/N 177RG1138, built 1977 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 177RG
- Registry model: [Cessna 177RG](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-177rg) (registry code 2073709) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D](https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-360-a1b6d) (registry code 41593, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 1138
- Airframe hours: 3701
- Engines: LYCOMING IO-360-A1B6D 200 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Business, Part 91
- Registered owner: Wendell R. Sala
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, July 20, 1988, 78 hours before
- Airport: WA38, Firstair, runway 25, 1,800 × 30 ft

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 52; commercial; airplane ratings: single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; seat: left; flight hours: 618 total, 64 in this make and model, 33 in the last 90 days, 12 in the last 30 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Night/bright
- Wind: 320° at 7 knots
- Visibility: 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 37 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: PAE, 10 nm away

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19881214062879A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19881214062879A), Dec 14, 1988: Cessna 177RG, Monroe, WA, Substantial damage. Night landing on runway with center line reflectors only. Allowed aircraft to leave center line and hit dirt bank.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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