Cessna 172 N4001F

Summary

On 30 September 2018 at about 18:20 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N4001F was involved in an accident near Somerset, 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

30 September 2018 at 18:20

Classification

Accident

Location

Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States

Nearest airport

Somerset County (2G9)

Coordinates

40.0344, -79.0239

Aircraft

Cessna 172

Registration

N4001F

Category

Airplane

Year built

1958

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Somerset → Somerset

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA18TA266

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's decision to land with insufficient runway remaining to stop, which resulted in a runway overrun.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

During the airplane's first flight after an annual inspection, the commercial pilot practiced touch-and-go landings and then flew the airplane for about 1.5 hours before returning to the airport. While on final approach to land, he reduced the engine power. The pilot stated that after the airplane touched down on the runway, it was traveling too fast to stop before the end of the runway but not fast enough to abort the landing. Subsequently, the airplane continued off the end of the runway, down an embankment, and came to rest inverted about 150 ft from the departure end of the runway. Postaccident examination of the brakes revealed no anomalies, and the pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot stated that he lands farther down the runway during full-stop landings because his hangar is at the far end of the runway. Thus, it is likely that the pilot landed the airplane too far down the runway and that it was traveling too fast to prevent a runway overrun.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.