- Date
- June 29, 1991, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Groveland, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N46305Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910629024929A
- Case key
- 32893
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed resulting in inadvertent stall/mush.
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 final apch to land, the acft stalled & impacted the ground nose & lt wing low short of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46305
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257172
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harking, Brian & Wright, David
- Registered owner
- Harking, Brian & Wright, David
- Airport
- X42 · Klinger Aero, runway 36, 1,990 × 150 ft, grass/turf
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
- 72
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 420 total · 198 in this make and model · 318 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N46305 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.