- Date
- March 18, 1993, 12:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Buena, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2899XCessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930318005659A
- Case key
- 43000
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain directional control. Factors contributing to the accident were crosswinds and the fence.
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 encountered a 10 to 12 knot left crosswind while landing on runway 28 at the private airstrip and began to drift right. After attempting to correct for the drift, he added power and executed a balked landing. During the go around the aircraft drifted left impacting a cyclone fence which paralleled the runway on its south side.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2899X
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700299
- Airframe hours
- 1,959
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hill, John H.
- Registered owner
- Hill, John H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 22, 1993 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- WA10 · Camas, WA
- Airport
- WA97 · Buena Airport, runway 28, 2,600 × 50 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 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 77 total · 4 in this make and model · 46 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YKM, 11 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.
Other investigations on N2899X · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.