- Date
- July 5, 1990, 23:20 local (Jul 6, 1990, 06:20 UTC)
- Place
- Concord, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5388RCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900705038129A
- Case key
- 26852
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Probable cause
The student pilot's initiating an excessive descent and the cfi's inadequate remedial action.
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 flight instructor stated that the student drifted about 10 degrees left of course near the outer marker. The instructor said the student a 'very high rate of descent' when the aircraft passed the outer marker. Before she could get him to stop the descent the aircraft struck a high tension power line.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5388R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172RG0059
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Buchanan Flying Club, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- SAC · Sacramento, CA
- Destination
- CCR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CCR · Buchanan, runway 19, 4,400 × 150 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
- 62
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,428 total · 75 in this make and model · 3,269 as pilot in command · 186 in the last 90 days · 58 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N5388R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.