Cessna 172K N84697

Summary

On 17 September 1999 at about 01:30 local time, a Cessna 172K registered N84697 was involved in an accident near Mountain Home, Arkansas, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

17 September 1999 at 01:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Mountain Home, Arkansas, United States

Nearest airport

Baxter Country Regional (BKP)

Coordinates

36.3300, -92.3694

Aircraft

Cessna 172K

Registration

N84697

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Harrison → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

FTW99LA260

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to obtain runway alignment. Factors were the dark night conditions, an embankment, and the pilot's lack of total experience flying at night.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

Dark night conditions prevailed for the cross-country flight. During the landing at the destination airport (non-towered), the private pilot confused the lighted runway and lighted parallel taxiway and landed the airplane on the grass between the taxiway and the runway. Although he initiated a go-around, the right main landing gear struck the edge of the taxiway crossover during the aborted landing. The nose gear collapsed, the airplane became airborne and traveled approximately 500 feet before impacting the ground in a nose down attitude and overturning. The pilot's total flight time was 99.5 hours. He had 5.3 hours total night flight time of which 2.1 hours were PIC flight time. The pilot reported that the accident could have been prevented by 'more training on night time operations.'

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.