Cessna 172N N9492E

Summary

On 21 May 2009 at about 14:15 local time, a Cessna 172N registered N9492E was involved in an accident near Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, United States. One person was 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

21 May 2009 at 14:15

Classification

Accident

Location

Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, United States

Nearest airport

Skyhaven Airport (76N)

Coordinates

41.5292, -75.9469

Aircraft

Cessna 172N

Registration

N9492E

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Wilkes-Barre → Tunkhannock

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA09CA301

Nobody was injured.

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

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

Read the full 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.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.