- Date
- July 4, 1992, 13:19 local (18:19 UTC)
- Place
- Chesterfield, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N734VFCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920704023709A
- Case key
- 15488
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Probable cause
The improper use of the aircraft brake system by the pilot in command.
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 accident airplane veered to the left after touchdown and collided with a runway edge light. An oval shaped portion of the tread on both main landing gear tires had been abraded away exposing the underlying tire cord pattern. The pilot of the accident airplane stated he thought he had a flat tire during the landing. After viewing skid marks on the runway he concluded the tires were probably sliding on the pavement. He remembers using the parking brake when he parked at the airport where he had landed earlier. He does not remember the status of the parking brake when he got back into the airplane. He does recall that it seemed to take more than the usual amount of power to taxi the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N734VF
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269143
- Airframe hours
- 2,159
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Phoenix Aviation
- Registered owner
- S. Rose & R. Ferland
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 21, 1992 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- 3SZ · St. Charles, MO
- Airport
- SUS · Spirit Of St. Louis, runway 8, 7,000 × 150 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 227 total · 33 in this make and model · 186 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUS, 1 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.