- Date
- September 7, 1990, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Plymouth, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6600HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900907042279A
- Case key
- 32698
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to arrest the high rate of descent prior to touchdown.
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 stated that the sightseeing flt was uneventful but while on approach to land, a high sink rate developed resulting in a hard landing. He further stated there was no eng failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6600H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265502
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Orlando Country Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Orlando Country Aviation, Inc
- Airport
- X04 · Orlando Country, runway 33, 3,000 × 30 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 120 total · 20 in this make and model · 60 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ORL, 23 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.
Other investigations on N6600H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.