- Date
- December 22, 1988, 11:22 local (16:22 UTC)
- Place
- Clearwater, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5160FCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 32373
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 control - in flight
Raising of flaps - improperFactor
Maneuver - abruptCause
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Object - building(nonresidential)
Analysis
The plt stated that he had been given a short approach for runway 4, when the tower told him to go around. He added power, retracted the flaps, and made a sharp right turn. The acft stalled and crashed into an office building aprx 1 mile from the airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5160F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273119
- Airframe hours
- 5,105
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- National Aviation Academy
- Registered owner
- Delta Aircraft Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 22, 1988 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- PIE · St Peterburg, FL
- Airport
- OLN · Clearwater, runway 4, 5,500 × 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 28 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE, 5 nm away