- Date
- July 9, 1989, 14:25 local (19:25 UTC)
- Place
- Blanco, TX
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N758ANCessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890709021149A
- Case key
- 22895
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Probable cause
Inadequate in-flight planning/decisions by not identifying the wind direction along with the failure to maintain airspeed. Contributing to the accident was the tailwind, wires and trees.
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
The private pilot and the commercial rated instructor pilot were practicing landings and had just completed a go-around and according to the instructor, they encountered a windshear of minus 15 knots and struck a telephone line, trees and then the terrain. They were making landings on rwy 30 and the reported prevailing winds in the area were from the south. According to the sequences from the weather reporting stations in the area, there were no weather systems that would likely cause vertical windshear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N758AN
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1722943
- Airframe hours
- 833
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-K, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Duggan, Charles M.
- Registered owner
- Duggan, Charles M
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 12, 1988 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- 3R5 · New Braunfels, TX
- Airport
- NONE, runway 30, 2,600 × 125 ft, grass/turf
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 673 total · 671 in this make and model · 433 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 5 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.