- Date
- April 13, 1990, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Incline Village, NV
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N9021HCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 41103
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Probable cause
Improper in-flight planning/decision by the instructor pilot (CFI), and his failure to maintain adequate altitude and clearance from obstructions. Factors related to the accident were: mountainous terrain, high density altitude, and the trees (obstructions).
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
While on a student demo flt, the instructor plt was flying at low altitude over mountainous terrain. Subsequently, the acft struck a tree, then descended uncontrolled & impacted the ground. Elevation at the crash site was 8700 ft, density altitude was estimated to be 10,140 ft, & the acft was loaded near its maximum gross wt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9021H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265904
- Airframe hours
- 3,831
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lisa A. Schilling
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 25, 1990 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- RNO · Reno, NV
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 450 total · 230 in this make and model · 380 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RNO, 15 nm away
Other investigations on N9021H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.