- Date
- April 26, 1992, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Key, FL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9888BCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920426011159A
- Case key
- 32987
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Improper recovery from the bounced landing by the pilot-in-command, and failure to maintain directional control. Contributing to the accident was the crosswind.
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 airplane bounced after touchdown, drifted off the left side of the rwy, then collided with a vehicle & a tree.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9888B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172RG1069
- Airframe hours
- 3,545
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eugene C. Bopp III
- Registered owner
- Genesus One, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 1992 · 61 hours before
- Departed
- 44J · Daytona Beach, FL
- Airport
- CDK · George T. Lewis, runway 23, 2,355 × 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 533 total · 80 in this make and model · 339 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 53 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.