- Date
- February 19, 1987, 17:40 local (21:40 UTC)
- Place
- San Juan, PR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N20350Cessna 172 M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870219018709A
- Case key
- 31855
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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 instructor plt stated that the flt was over San Juan bay aprx 2.5-3 miles from the arpt at aprx 700 feet when the eng began to run rough. The eng then quit. However it restarted momentarily. Realizing the flt would not reach the arpt the acft was then ditched in the bay aprx 15 feet from shore in aprx 4-5 feet of water. Post crash examination of the intact fuel tanks revealed that they did not contain enough fuel to sustain engine operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20350
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17261213
- Airframe hours
- 5,066
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- C & T Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 27, 1986 · 80 hours before
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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,134 total · 102 in this make and model · 1,098 as pilot in command · 216 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJU, 8 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.