- Date
- May 30, 1992, 13:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Clewiston, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3793RCessna 172-H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920530017159A
- Case key
- 32989
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot-in-command (student pilot) to maintain an airspeed above stall, and his inadvertent stall and spin.
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 pilot was on his first solo cross-country flight and was observed to be high and fast on approach for the runway. He announced over UNICOM radio that he was executing a go-around. Witnesses observed and heard him add power, and the nose pitched up, the airplane stalled, rolled left and crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3793R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172-H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17255593
- Airframe hours
- 4,713
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 140 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Care Aviation
- Registered owner
- Care Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 3, 1992 · 98 hours before
- Departed
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- X53 · Clewiston, runway 14, 3,010 × 150 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 47 in this make and model · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 17 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.