- Date
- September 5, 1992, 00:20 local (05:20 UTC)
- Place
- Ness City, KS
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N5272LPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920905035549A
- Case key
- 15310
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's (CFI) failure to maintain control of the airplane.
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
During an instructional night VFR cross country flight, the airplane departed controlled flight and impacted the terrain. Subsequent examination failed to reveal any incapacitation of the pilots or mechanical anomalies of the airplane. Marginal VFR conditions existed in the area of the accident site during the time of the flight. The weather conditions consisted of cloud bases at 2,000 feet AGL, with tops to above 30,000 feet, including a forecast for light to moderate turbulence below 11,000 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5272L
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-4570
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mc Cosh, Joseph D.
- Registered owner
- Mc Cosh, Joseph D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 19, 1992
- Departed
- GCK · Garden City, KS
- Destination
- K75 · Osborne, KS
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 180° at 25 knots
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.