- Date
- September 21, 2024, 19:11 local (Sep 22, 2024, 02:11 UTC)
- Place
- Redlands, CA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N177SXCessna 177B
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240921017689A
- Case key
- 195187
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during final approach, which resulted in a collision with rocky terrain.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that while on final approach he noticed that his instrument panel lights were low, and it was difficult to read their indications. He further stated that he was low and slow and had power applied throughout his descent. The airplane impacted rocky terrain short of the runway and was subsequently destroyed by postcrash fire. The pilot reported that the airplane had no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N177SX
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702532
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 2,289
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William Lindsey
- Registered owner
- Lil Cardinal LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 25, 2024 · 8 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- REI · Redlands Muni, runway 08/26, 4,504 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system
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
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- October 26, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 350 total · 5 in this make and model · 350 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 290° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KRIV, 14 nm away
- METAR
- KRIV 220155Z AUTO 29007KT 10SM CLR 22/14 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP116 T02230141 PWINO $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.