- Date
- October 14, 1989, 15:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Cedarburg, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1325UCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891014040259A
- Case key
- 14577
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Probable cause
Delay of the flight instructor (CFI) in making a go-around and his failure to attain sufficient airspeed to climb after taking off again. The transmission wire (power line) and high vegetation were contributing factors.
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
Drg an instructional flt, an emergency landing to an arpt was demonstrated, simulating an eng failure. The instructor (CFI) rprtd that drg a subsequent go-around, the acft failed to fly out of ground effect before reaching a corn field at the end of the rwy. The acft began to settle over the corn field as it was apchg power lines. Realizing the acft would not climb over the power lines, the CFI opted to fly under the wires. However, the top of the vertical stabilizer contacted & severed the lowermost wire. The acft then contacted the ground, bounced, settled in a lot with tall weeds & nosed over. No preimpact anomalies were found in the airframe or eng that would have contributed to the occurrence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1325U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267013
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Nack, James W., doing business as Metro Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Nack, James & Wilheim, Paul
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 7, 1989 · 73 hours before
- Departed
- MWC · Milwaukee, WI
- Destination
- MWC
- Airport
- S0C · Grob Field, runway 23, 2,700 × 200 ft, grass/turf
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
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,019 total · 402 in this make and model · 909 as pilot in command · 196 in the last 90 days · 59 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKE, 23 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.