- Date
- November 21, 1989, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mims, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7628VCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891121046379A
- Case key
- 32603
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Probable cause
A worn throttle control assembly that had failed.
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 commercial plt check flt, the applicant was given a simulated eng failure. He selected a dirt road for a simulated forced landing. At an alt of about 500 ft, after the examiner was assured the applicant could have landed, the applicant was told to go around. The applicant applied throttle, but the eng did not respond. While attempting to correct the problem, the acft overflew most of the road. Unable to land on the road, the plts selected a field of saplings & the acft was damaged during an emergency landing. An exam of the eng revealed the throttle control assembly was worn & had failed, which allowed the inner cable to exit its housing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7628V
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0896
- Airframe hours
- 2,845
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Grady Francis, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Grady Francis, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 14, 1989 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- SFB · Sanford, FL
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 501 total · 28 in this make and model · 454 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIX, 15 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.