- Date
- November 20, 1988, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Okeechobee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8262BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 8, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 32364
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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Lubricating system,oil filler cap - not securedCause
Aircraft preflight - inadequateCause
Fluid,oil - exhaustionCause
Forced landing
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
The student pilot reported that during preflight inspection, he did not replace the oil cap after he checked the oil. Subsequently, oil was vented overboard during flight & the engine lost power. The nose gear collapsed during a forced landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8262B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36062
- Airframe hours
- 6,357
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Thompson, Donald C.
- Registered owner
- Donald C Thompson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 2, 1988 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- LNA · Lantana, FL
- Destination
- LAL · Lakeland, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
N8262BRegistration cancelled Sep 10, 2013 · Cessna 172Airframe modelCessna 172Engine modelContinental GO-300 series
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 45 total · 15 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 30,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 55 nm away