19790513019109A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Cessna 172 · San Juan, Puerto Rico · May 13, 1979

Date
May 13, 1979 · 21:50 local
Place
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Airport
Isla Grande
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N707AC
NTSB investigation
NTSBMIA79FA082
Reported as
Cessna 172
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
3
Pilot’s flight hours
956 total0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot departed without weather briefing and continued into detriorating weather, resulting in crash.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DEPARTED WITHOUT WEATHER BRIEFING AND CONTINUED INTO DETRIORATING WEATHER, RESULTING IN CRASH.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.