- Date
- March 18, 1990, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Andover, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8213LCessna 172H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900318010159A
- Case key
- 36620
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain control of the aircraft after encounter with turbulence during landing.
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
After about 40 minutes of flight, the pilot decided to land at Andover to top the tanks. During the approach, turbulence was encountered, full power was applied, but due to the high sink rate, stall recovery was not possible and the aircraft impacted the runway with the left wing. The pilot managed to avoid hitting some parked aircraft and touchdown was made on all three wheels.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8213L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17254413
- Airframe hours
- 2,350
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Egon A. Sorensen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · August 13, 1989 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- NO7 · Lincoln Park, NJ
- Airport
- 12N · Aeroflex-Andover, runway 21, 1,997 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,905 total · 1,700 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °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.