- Date
- February 17, 1992, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Leesburg, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N53370Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920217004749A
- Case key
- 8559
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Probable cause
The unfavorable wind conditions encountered by the flight during taxi.
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
According to the flight instructor, they had completed several touch and go landings and were taxiing to the ramp when he noticed blowing dust southwest of their position. Aircraft control was lost when they encountered an estimated 50 knot gust of wind. Efforts to arrest the condition failed and the airplane nosed over. There was no reported convective activity in the immediate vicinity of lessburg airport or at the nearest reporting facility.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53370
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1727432
- Airframe hours
- 5,259
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Taylor, Charles F.
- Registered owner
- Taylor, Charles F.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 14, 1992 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- LEE
- Destination
- LEE
- Airport
- LEE · Leesburg, runway 31, 5,000 × 100 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,247 total · 350 in this make and model · 1,150 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 35 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.