- Date
- August 5, 1989, 10:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Griswold, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N758QBCessna R172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890805027669A
- Case key
- 36459
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Improper flare by the pilot, and his failure to attain adequated airspeed for an aborted landing (go-around), which resulted in a loss of aircraft control.
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 personal flight departed hartford-brainard airport en route to lakeside and was uneventful. The approach was normal, but touchdown was hard. Power was added for a go-around, but the aircraft veered left off of the runway. The pilot stated the aircraft was still in ground effect, so he decreased the flaps to 20 degrees. The aircraft then settled hard, the propeller caught in some dirt and the aircraft flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N758QB
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1723266
- Airframe hours
- 1,374
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-K8, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Freedom Aviation
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 4, 1989 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- HFD · Hartford, CT
- Airport
- 5B4 · Lakeside, runway 29, 2,640 × 50 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 520 total · 242 in this make and model · 400 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.