- Date
- September 6, 1987, 22:30 local (Sep 7, 1987, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- W. Mifflin, PA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N80376Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870906049989A
- Case key
- 30731
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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 non-certificated pilot took the aircraft without authorization. The aircraft crashed during an attempted landing on runway 10 at allegheny county airport and was substantially damaged. There were two passengers on board but they were not injured. The plt had never soloed in any acft and had never flown the C-172.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80376
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266558
- Airframe hours
- 1,416
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Kerr
- Registered owner
- Rmp Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 10, 1987 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- AGC · W. Mifflin, PA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- AGC · Allegheny Co., runway 10, 6,500 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- 19
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Observed at
- AGC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.