- Date
- December 12, 1990, 06:30 local (11:30 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5780RCessna 172G
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901212053889A
- Case key
- 32802
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Probable cause
Failure to maintain aircraft control after intentional flight into known adverse weather conditions.
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 student plt departed into known foggy conditions with a pax aboard to practice touch-&-go landings. After takeoff the flt encountered fog & the student lost control of the acft, stalled, descended uncontrolled into trees. There was no eng or flt control failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5780R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17253449
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Weeks, Milton D.
- Registered owner
- Weeks, Milton D.
- Airport
- 23J · Herlong, runway 25, 4,000 × 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 145 total · 145 in this make and model · 75 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NZC, 5 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.