- Date
- February 9, 1986, 11:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Renton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N738XXCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860209029579A
- Case key
- 40270
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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 recently certificated private pilot was engaged in practice touch and go landings. Sometime after the second approach the throttle control rod became disconnected from the throttle cable and the pilot was unable to retard the throttle from a full power condition. The pilot subsequently maneuvered the aircraft back towards the airport in a high speed, clean, descending profile and overshot the final approach eventually colliding with trees and a fence slightly northwest of midfield. There was no apparent attempt by the pilot to execute the stuck throttle procedures which her flight instructor had previously provided to her while under training.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N738XX
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17270328
- Airframe hours
- 1,452
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Tech
- Registered owner
- Daniel B. & Marian B. Hartley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 24, 1986 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Airport
- RNT · Renton Municipal, runway 12, 5,379 × 200 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 105 total · 14 in this make and model · 32 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RNT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.