- Date
- January 17, 1991, 09:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N65418Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910117000639A
- Case key
- 32813
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Probable cause
Inadequate maintenance record keeping by the operation, and failure of the CFI to follow procedures and directives.
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
Three days before the accident flt, the vacuum pump was removed and had not been reinstalled. The CFI & student preflighted the acft with no discrepancies noted. The engine start & run-up prior to departure were reported as normal. The flt departed & the CFI stated that the eng would not develop power greater than 1,200 RPM. During the forced landing on a road, the nose gear travelled into a ditch & the acft nosed over. Exam of the acft at the accident site, revealed oil coated the bottom of the fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65418
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281540
- Airframe hours
- 7,946
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Silver Express, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Silver Express, Inc.
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 26, 1990 · 41 hours before
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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 347 total · 200 in this make and model · 235 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 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.