- Date
- April 5, 1992, 14:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Scappoose, OR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N52638Cessna 177RG
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920405008809A
- Case key
- 41649
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power, cause undetermined. A factor relating to the accident was the lack of suitable terrain for a forced 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
The pilot was descending in IMC on an IFR flt when the engine lost power. He initiated a forced landing and the acft impacted obstacles while he was attmepting to land on a road. There was no evidence of malfunction or failure that would have caused the loss of power. The engine ran normally after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52638
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG1222
- Airframe hours
- 2,267
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gjovaag, Inghard J.
- Registered owner
- Gjovaag, Inghard J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1992 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- S88 · Arlington, WA
- Destination
- HIO · Hillsboro, OR
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,142 total · 720 in this make and model · 1,113 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HIO, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.