Pilot Debrief

CESSNA 172N near Tunkhannock, PA — 2009-05-21

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Date
2009-05-21
Location
Tunkhannock, PA, USA
Airport
76N
Aircraft
CESSNA 172N
Registration
N9492E
Category
Airplane
Highest injury
None
Fatalities
0

Probable cause

The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point while landing with a tailwind.

NTSB narrative

According to the pilot, he checked the wind sock, then flew a "standard" traffic pattern at a final approach speed of 70 knots and 20-degrees flaps. He subsequently landed the airplane on runway 1, a 2,007-foot-long runway, “a few hundred feet past the threshold,” and it "seem[ed] as though [he] had a wind shift which became a tailwind." The pilot's subsequent application of brakes did not slow the airplane and during an attempt to turn off the runway, the airplane "would not steer." The airplane overran the end of the runway, went down a 10-foot embankment, nosed over, and sustained damage to the vertical stabilizer and left wing. Winds, recorded at an airport 15 miles to the southeast about the time of the accident, were from 230 degrees true at 9 knots. The pilot did not report any mechanical anomalies with the airplane.

NTSB coding

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