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Cessna 172N N9478E

11 February 2007 · Pinckneyville, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 11 February 2007 at about 01:00 local time, a Cessna 172N registered N9478E was involved in an accident near Pinckneyville, Illinois, 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.

The record

Date
at 01:00
Classification
Accident
Location
Pinckneyville, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport
Pinckneyville-Du Quoin (PJY)
Coordinates
37.9778, -89.3606
Aircraft
Cessna 172N
Registration
N9478E
Category
Airplane
Engines
1
Operator
Not recorded
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Personal
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Burlington → Pinckneyville
Aircraft damage
Substantial
Weather
VMC
Light
Night
NTSB number
CHI07CA082

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
1 0 0 0 1

Probable cause

Presence of a deer on the runway resulting in an inadvertent collision during the landing roll.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane was substantially damaged when it struck a deer while landing. The pilot stated: "As I landed . . . a deer struck my right horizontal stabilizer [causing] structural damage on the right stabilizer." Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot was not injured.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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