- Date
- July 31, 1989, 12:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fall City, WA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3448TCessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890731025959A
- Case key
- 41058
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged his landing flare and then did not properly recover from the resulting bounce.
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
During landing, the pilot was starting to flare about 10 feet above the ground, but descended onto the overrun and bounced. The aircraft hit the ground again and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3448T
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700748
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bill M. Davis
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Destination
- 1WA6
- Airport
- 1WA6 · Campbell, runway 9, 3,200 × 20 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Expired
- Flight hours
- 593 total · 25 in this make and model · 450 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N3448T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.