- Date
- November 18, 1992, 18:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Key Largo, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5190VCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921118047469A
- Case key
- 33197
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to obtain the proper touchdown point on landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot in command's improper preflight planning preparation and selection of the wrong runway relative to the wind.
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 commercial pilot attempted to contact the destination airport on UNICOM radio with negative results. A low approach was made to runway 04, and the pilot reversed his landing direction to runway 22 without obtaining surface wind information. The pilot landed downwind and long without runway lights. The airplane ran off the end of the runway, crossed a service road and collided with a tree, separating the right wing from the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5190V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172RG0463
- Airframe hours
- 4,166
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Suncoast Flying Services, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Suncoast Flying Services,Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 3, 1992 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- CLW · Clearwater, FL
- Airport
- X09 · Ocean Reef Club Airport, runway 22, 4,050 × 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,550 total · 30 in this make and model · 32 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 40° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA, 16 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.