- Date
- September 10, 1992, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stanfield, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N734UTCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920910036599A
- Case key
- 27758
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The cfi's poor in-flight decision to demonstrate the simulated engine out emergency landing at too low an altitude and misjudging the altitude during the circling maneuver.
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
While on a local training flight, the CFI elected to demonstrate a simulated engine out, emergency landing to a privately owned dirt airstrip. The aircraft was too high to execute a straight in approach and the CFI entered into a left circling turn. The CFI misjudged the aircraft's altitude and its left wing struck the ground during the turn onto the final approach course.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N734UT
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269131
- Airframe hours
- 2,915
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard Glazar, doing business as Venture Aviation
- Registered owner
- Richard Glazar
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 26, 1992 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- P10 · Chandler, AZ
- Airport
- Dirt Airstrip, runway 36, 1,000 × ft, dirt
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,496 total · 1,068 in this make and model · 1,474 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.