- Date
- May 2, 1992, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Canton, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9623VCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920502013129A
- Case key
- 18487
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and directional control during the attempted go around following an encounter with adverse wind conditions on approach.
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 newly certificated private pilot encountered turbulence, gusty winds, and windshear while attempting to land. After drifting left of the runway centerline, he attempted to correct with rudder. During the attempted correction, the airplane turned to the right, developed a sink rate, and the airspeed decayed. The pilot initiated a go around. The sink rate was not arrested with full power and the airplane continued to descend and turn to the right. It ultimately impacted in a lake on a golf course about 100 yards from the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9623V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17264403
- Airframe hours
- 4,395
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Centerline Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Chaplin, Robert N.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 17, 1992 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Airport
- 7F5 · Canton, runway 18, 3,750 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 85 total · 85 in this make and model · 56 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TYR, 28 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.