- Date
- July 19, 1992, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Piqua, OH
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N78483Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920719025879A
- Case key
- 11821
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall.
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 aircraft was on final approach to a landing. According to passengers, the flight was to participate in a bomb drop contest. One of these passengers, a rated pilot, reported that the pilot was in 'slow flight' during the approach and that the airplane 'stalled' about 200 feet above the ground. The aircraft crashed about one quarter mile from the runway. An examination of the engine did not disclose any mechanical malfunctions.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N78483
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257633
- Airframe hours
- 3,180
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Skypark Aero Club
- Registered owner
- Skypark Aero Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 17, 1991 · 210 hours before
- Airport
- I17 · Piqua Airport, runway 26, 4,000 × 75 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 490 total · 33 in this make and model · 431 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAY, 16 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.