NYC88LA003 · Cessna 172H
Cessna 172H · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water during takeoff
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC88LA003
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 172H
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1677F
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff · rejected takeoff
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aircraft control, improper
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT RPRTD HE STARTED TO DEPART FROM RWY 13 WITH THE WIND FROM THE SOUTH AT 15 GUSTING 25 KTS. HE STATED THE ACFT WAS NOT CLIMBING AS EXPECTED SO HE ELECTED TO LAND ON THE REMAINING RWY. HE STATED THE WIND GUSTS WERE STRONG FROM THE RIGHT REAR. HE SAID HE THROTTLED BACK SOMEWHAT AFTER LOWERING THE NOSE & PROCEEDED TO GLIDE BACK TO THE SURFACE, BUT THE ACFT DRIFTED TO THE LEFT OF THE RWY. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT STRUCK THE GROUND RIGHT WING 1ST, TURNING THE ACFT TO THE RIGHT. THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR TOUCHED DOWN NEXT, FOLLOWED BY THE LEFT MAIN & NOSE GEAR. THE ACFT THEN SKIDDED ABOUT 20' TO A STOP WITH DAMAGE TO THE WING TIPS, ENG MOUNTS, PROP, FUSELAGE, HORIZONTAL STABILIZER & GEAR.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC88LA003
- Event ID
- 20001213X32419
- Case number
- NYC88LA003
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 4dc8ff76462d4c8c3ea6f577e644fe90e729d9fe2bd160951fad9652c5df86ba; retrieved 2026-09-23T11:54:00.833Z.