- Date
- April 18, 1992, 14:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Haines, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N80115Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920418012079A
- Case key
- 5714
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Probable cause
The pilot's delayed decision to abort the takeoff. Factors to the accident were: inadequate airspeed an soft/sandy terrain.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during the takeoff from a private airstrip, the airplane encountered patches of soft sand. The airplane did not attain sufficient airspeed to allow the airplane to takeoff. The aborted takeoff was not performed in time to allow the airplane to stop before over-running the end of the runway and colliding with the water that surrounded the airstrip on three sides.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80115
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266379
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kinney, John M.
- Registered owner
- Kinney, John M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1992 · 12 hours before
- Destination
- JNU · Juneau, AK
- Airport
- Glacier Point, runway 36, 2,000 × 25 ft, gravel
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,687 total · 1,518 in this make and model · 2,609 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 45 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.