- Date
- May 15, 1988, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anacortes, WA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4723JCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880515051879A
- Case key
- 40818
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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
After overflying the intended seaplane base landing area. The pilot, who had logged only 1 hour of fixed wing time in the previous 90 days, misjudged the necessary downwind leg length and landed with insufficient surface distance available to stop the aircraft before colliding with a breakwater.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4723J
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273669
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenmore Air Harbor, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · May 4, 1988
- Departed
- S60 · Kenmore, WA
- Destination
- WA03 · Anacortes, WA
- Airport
- WA03 · Skyline Seaplane
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 382 total · 200 in this make and model · 212 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.