- Date
- June 6, 1988, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gaithersburg, MD
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N65720Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11417
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - tree(s)
Analysis
According to the plt, after touchdown the acft encountered a crosswind gust. The acft drifted left of the rwy where it collided with trees. The plt reported no mechanical malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65720
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275833
- Airframe hours
- 2,288
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Flight Inc.
- Registered owner
- Tpk Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 15, 1988 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- N80 · Ocean City, MD
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- GAI · Gaithersburg-Montgomery, runway 32, 4,235 × 75 ft, asphalt
N65720Registration cancelled Sep 16, 2008 · Cessna 172PAirframe modelCessna 172PEngine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 78 total · 8 in this make and model · 28 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWI, 23 nm away