- Date
- July 18, 2012, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- St. Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N127EPCessna 172P
- Defining event
- Unknown: Unknown or undetermined
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 7, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 84382
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Probable cause
Undetermined due to a lack of information about when the damage to the airplane occurred.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
During a scheduled 100-hour inspection, maintenance personnel discovered structural damage to the airplane’s firewall. According to the flight school’s records, the airplane had been flown 91.4 hours on 77 flights between the time of the previous 100 hour inspection and the time when the damage was discovered. The flight school was never notified of an event that would have possibly caused the firewall damage. Therefore, the actual time and date and the circumstances of the accident could not be determined.
Factual narrative
During a scheduled 100 hour inspection, maintenance personnel discovered structural damage to the airplane’s firewall. According to the flight school’s records, there were 77 flights in the accident airplane from the previous 100 hour inspection that took place on May 8, 2012 and July 18, 2012, when the damage was discovered. A total of 91.4 flight hours were accumulated between those inspections. The flight school was never notified of an event that would have possibly caused the firewall damage. The actual time and date of the accident is unknown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N127EP
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276481
- Airframe hours
- 15,266
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Florida Aviation Career Training, Inc
- Registered owner
- Florida Aviation Career Training, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 8, 2012 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- Unknown, FL
- Destination
- Unknown, FL
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- UNK · Unknown
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
- 1
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 0 total · 0 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 7, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.1 MB in all.
Other investigations on N127EP · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.