- Date
- March 31, 1991, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- La Junta, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6904XCessna 172B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910331007999A
- Case key
- 18080
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and the resultant inadvertent stall. The pilot's failure to raise the flaps was a factor in the accident.
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
This was the student pilot's second supervised solo flight. He had made one touch and go landing. On his second approach, he encountered up and downdrafts and a crosswind. He failed to compensate for the wind conditions and elected to make a go around. The pilot failed to reconfigure the airplane. Airspeed decayed and the airplane stalled and crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6904X
- Reported as
- Cessna 172B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17247804
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sweet, Anthony E.
- Registered owner
- Sweet, Anthony E.
- Airport
- LHX · La Junta Municipal, runway 26, 6,850 × 100 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.