ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 297660
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| Date: | Tuesday 15 January 2002 |
| Time: | 14:50 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172 |
| Owner/operator: | Richard Prior |
| Registration: | N509R |
| MSN: | 17266894 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5663 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-E2 D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Iraan, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | New Braunfels Regional Airport, TX (KBAZ) |
| Iraan, TX (2F0) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot had difficulty locating the windsock as he overflew the airport. On his third landing attempt on runway 32, he landed one-third of the way down the 4,085 feet long, 60 feet wide runway. Halfway down the runway he retracted the flaps and applied heavy braking. The airplane veered off the right side of the runway, went through a barbed wire fence, a shallow ditch, over a road, and into a business yard, where it impacted a pipe trailer. The pilot discovered after the accident that he had landed with a 15 knot tail wind. The 400 hour pilot reported that he had accumulated a total of 7 hours in the Cessna 172, and he felt his lack of experience in high wing airplanes was a contributing factor to the accident.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing roll. Contributing factors were the pilot's selection of a downwind runway for landing, the tail wind condition, and his lack of total experience in the type of aircraft.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB FTW02LA067
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 December 1985 | N509R | Private | 0 | Andalusia, AL | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 15-Oct-2022 06:57 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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