- Date
- March 26, 1992, 16:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N20059Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920326007519A
- Case key
- 18354
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Probable cause
Inadvertent stall during aborted landing. Factors were the tailwind, the pilot's selection of the wrong runway for existing wind conditions and his long landing.
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 pilot landed downwind on a 3,350 foot runway. After touching down beyond the mid field point, he elected to abort the landing. A nose high attitude was established on climbout and the airplane stalled as the pilot initiated a left crosswind turn.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20059
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17260971
- Airframe hours
- 3,147
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Loren M. Koehn
- Registered owner
- Loren M. Koehn
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 12, 1992 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- EWK · Newton, KS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 2EJ · Expressway Airpark, runway 20, 3,350 × 50 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 86 total · 31 in this make and model · 29 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OKC, 22 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.