- Date
- April 27, 1993, 21:00 local (Apr 28, 1993, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N51202Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930427014499A
- Case key
- 33262
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to compensate for wind drift while landing, resulting in the aircraft going off the side of the runway and colliding with a pond.
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 pilot stated he encountered a wind gust just as he was initiating his landing flare. The aircraft was blown to the right and he did not place the flight controls to correct for this. The aircraft touched down and ran off the right side of the runway. The aircraft then collided with a pond and nosed over coming to rest inverted in the pond.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51202
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274278
- Airframe hours
- 3,372
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aircraft Leasing Company
- Registered owner
- Aircraft Leasing Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 30, 1993 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- ORL
- Airport
- ORL · Orlando Executive, runway 7, 5,998 × 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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 82 total · 25 in this make and model · 34 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 30° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 1 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.