- Date
- February 20, 1987, 17:05 local (22:05 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Key, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N12198Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870220032439A
- Case key
- 31858
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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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 plt was attempting to go around after landing fast, due to a tail wind that was stronger that anticipated. Unable to climb, the acft was then blown off the rwy, collided with trees, & came to rest in the gulf of Mexico.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12198
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17261879
- Airframe hours
- 4,475
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- John A. Quimby
- Registered owner
- Mid-Continental Guaranty Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 18, 1986 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- OCF · Ocala, FL
- Airport
- CDK · George T. Lewis, runway 23, 3,400 × 100 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 246 total · 110 in this make and model · 246 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 40° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 27 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.