- Date
- September 29, 1983, 17:02 local (22:02 UTC)
- Place
- Brundidge, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N79025Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830929052439A
- Case key
- 6217
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While cruising at 2,000 ft the plt smelled fuel fumes & elected to make a precautionary landing. When within gliding distance of the arpt, he secured the eng with the mixture control & made an uneventful deadstick landing. After exiting the acft he noticed fuel dripping from the lower eng cowling in the vicinity of the carb. The plt opened an excess door & flames erupted within. The acft eventually became engulfed in flames. The plt, who is alos an A&P, performed the last 100 hr insp in 4/83 at which time he found that the fuel supply line was loose at the carb & had to be tightened. On theday after the accident the acft was examined & the fuel supply line was found no longer connected to the carb inlet fitting. The #3 cylinder exhaust pipe was broken away from the right side end plate of the muffler, providing a possiblesource of ignition for any fuel leaking in the eng compartment.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N79025
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257820
- Airframe hours
- 5,370
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dennis L. Peterson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1983
- Departed
- 71J · Ozark, AL
- Airport
- 60A · Brundidge Municipal, runway 7, 3,000 × 80 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,065 total · 700 in this make and model · 8,556 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DHN, 34 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.