- Date
- January 10, 1986, 17:35 local (Jan 11, 1986, 01:35 UTC)
- Place
- San Jose, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N733ZFCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860110000489A
- Case key
- 25051
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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.
Analysis
The acft contacted trees and a building during a forced landing following a power loss while on final apch to land. Post accident inspection revealed a failure of the throttle cable housing at the swaged ball joint near the carburetor. This failure allowed eng power to reduce to idle.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N733ZF
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17268673
- Airframe hours
- 992
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Bee Gee Aero
- Registered owner
- Rene M. Barrea
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 30, 1985
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Airport
- RHV · Reid-Hillview, runway 31R, 3,101 × 75 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 176 total · 7 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RHV, 5 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.