- Date
- April 11, 1991, 15:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Lehi, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N51254Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910411010129A
- Case key
- 18082
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control. Factors were: the wet runway and resultant hydroplaning.
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
Because of deteriorating weather, the pilot elected to make an unscheduled landing at an airstrip at Lehi, Arkansas. The runway was wet and the aircraft hydroplaned. After leaving the paved runway the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51254
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274291
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Berry Aviation Of Pine Bluff,
- Registered owner
- Berry Aviation Of Pine Bluff,
- Departed
- MXA · Manila, AR
- Destination
- AWM · West Memphis, AR
- Airport
- Unknown, runway 36, 2,000 × 25 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
- 29
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,118 total · 266 in this make and model · 1,940 as pilot in command · 87 in the last 90 days · 63 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- 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.