# Incident 20200130010229I: Cessna 172N, Tamiami, FL, January 30, 2020

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 30, 2020, 09:03 local time
- Place: Tamiami, FL
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Operator: YDFS
- Location: 25.7563° N, 80.4026° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Tamiami, FL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=25.7563&lon=-80.4026&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5337D (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172N
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 41 total, 41 in this make and model, 11 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20200130010229I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

THE INSTRUCTOR AND THE FLIGHT STUDENT CALLED FLIGHT SERVICE FOR THEIR WEATHER BRIEFING. THE SKY CONDITIONS AT 0732 REPORTED BROKEN 700 AND 1100, AT 0742 SCATTERED 400 AND 1100, 0753 FEW AT 200 AND 1100, 0830 FEW AT 200 AND 700, AND 0853 FEW AT 200 AND 600. FROM SPEAKING WITH THE INSTRUCTOR, WHEN THEY PREFLIGHT THE AIRCRAFT THEY BOTH AGREED THE CLOUDS WERE CLEARING AND AT THAT POINT THE STUDENT PILOT DECIDED TO FLY, IT WAS APPROXIMATELY 0830.

THE FORECAST WAS VFR, THE METAR AND THE THEN CURRENT CONDITIONS WERE TECHNICALLY VFR, WITH FEW AND SCATTERED CLOUDS AT THE TIME OF THE FLIGHT.

WHILE THEY WERE IN THE PREFLIGHT, THE INSTRUCTOR INDICATED HE AND HIS STUDENT AGREED THE CLOUDS WERE NEARLY GONE. THE STUDENT AGREED AND DECIDED TO FLY IN THE TRAFFIC PATTERN. ONCE THE STUDENT GOT INTO THE TRAFFIC PATTERN, HE SAW THE  CLOUDS AT 600 AND TO HIM IT APPEARED TO BE MORE THAN A FEW CLOUDS, PANICKED AND DECIDED TO LAND. HE SAW RUNWAY 13 AS CLOSEST, HE DECIDED TO LAND ON 13.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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