- Date
- October 2, 1988, 17:50 local (22:50 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89745Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881002043629A
- Case key
- 22805
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89745
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1726011
- Airframe hours
- 2,442
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Reinhardt, Robert W.
- Registered owner
- Able Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 9, 1988 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- EFD · Ellington Afb, TX
- Destination
- AAP · Houston, TX
- Airport
- AAP · Andrau Airpark, runway 34, 4,750 × 50 ft, concrete
N89745Registration cancelled Oct 7, 2014 · Cessna 172PAirframe modelCessna 172PEngine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 230 total · 32 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.