- Date
- July 15, 1992, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bates City, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N1324ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920715031059A
- Case key
- 15495
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Probable cause
Total failure of the airplane windshield.
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
Student pilot was on a solo flight, practicing turns about a point. During a turn, a crack in the windshield began to widen, and the windshield blew out of the airplane. The pilot regained control of the airplane, and made an uneventful landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1324E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17270956
- Airframe hours
- 3,649
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Rouse Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Rouse Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 7, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- MKC · Kansas City, MO
- Destination
- MKC
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKC, 30 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.