- Date
- December 16, 2000, 12:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N96024Cessna 172E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001216028789A
- Case key
- 50811
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Probable cause
the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing. A factor was a total power loss due to a connecting rod failure.
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 cruise flight, the engine lost all power due to a connecting rod failure and the flight instructor attempted to land the aircraft on a road. Due to a vehicle on the road, the flight instructor steered the aircraft into a field during landing roll and the aircraft struck some rocks causing damage to the main landing gear mounting structure. The reason for the connecting rod failure could not be determined due to secondary damage.
Factual narrative
On December 16, 2000, at 1210 mountain standard time, a Cessna 172E, N96024, sustained substantial damage during a forced landing on Antelope Island, in Great Salt Lake, near Salt Lake City, Utah. The certified flight instructor and passenger were not injured. The flight was operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The flight departed Bountiful, Utah, at 1100.
According to the flight instructor, during cruise flight, the aircraft lost all engine power and the he attempted a landing on a road. Due to a vehicle on the road, the pilot said he steered the aircraft into a field, and the aircraft struck some rocks after it departed the road.
The Federal Aviation administration inspector who went to the scene found a hole in the engine casing and that the main landing gear mounting structure had substantial damage. The cause for the hole in the casing was a connecting rod failure. The reason for the rod failure could not be determined due to secondary damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96024
- Reported as
- Cessna 172E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172-0148
- Airframe hours
- 6,587
- Engine
- Continental IO-360D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Daniel L. Autry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 8, 1999 · 177 hours before
- Departed
- BTF · Bountiful, UT
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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 550 total · 175 in this make and model · 510 as pilot in command · 230 in the last 90 days · 85 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLC, 15 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.