- Date
- February 9, 1993, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Plymouth, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N79563Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930209002149A
- Case key
- 33226
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Probable cause
Undetected damage to the right main gear brake line which developed a leak and resulted in failure of the brake. The pilot was unable to maintain directional control, or stop the aircraft, prior to colliding with aircraft parked to the side of the runway.
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 right brake failed during the landing rollout, and the pilot was unable to maintain directional control or stop the aircraft prior to colliding with parked aircraft off the left side of the runway. The fairings covering the main gear struts had been removed, exposing the brake lines. The right brake line had sustained damage in the exposed area and developed a leak, causing loss of fluid to the right brake.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N79563
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17258177
- Airframe hours
- 1,699
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Anderson Software Inc.
- Registered owner
- Anderson Software Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 10, 1992
- Departed
- X04
- Airport
- X04 · Orlando Country, runway 15, 3,000 × 30 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 358 total · 174 in this make and model · 278 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCO, 25 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.