ERA26LA221 · Cessna 172P
Blue Sky Aviation Cessna 172P · Accident: loss of engine power (partial) during initial climb
From North Perry Airport (HWO) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA26LA221
- 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
- Ongoing
- 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 172P
- 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
- N96100
- Operator
- Blue Sky Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From North Perry Airport (HWO), Pembroke Pines, FLTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 43 years (built 1983)
- 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
- Initial climb
- Defining eventThe 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
- Loss of engine power (partial)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On May 29, 2026, at 1138 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172P, N96100, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Pembroke Pines, Florida. The flight instructor sustained serious injuries. The student pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. Prior to the accident flight, the airplane was flown 2.9 hours on a separate instructional flight. The student pilot then performed a preflight inspection of the airplane. The training plan for the flight was to practice flight maneuvers in preparation for solo flight operations. After discussing the training plan with the flight instructor, the student pilot retrieved the flight school-specific checklist and started the airplane’s engine. She then contacted air traffic control and was cleared to taxi to runway 28R at North Perry Airport (HWO), Pembroke Pines, Florida. Both pilots reported that an engine runup was conducted and that nothing abnormal was observed. The flight instructor then told the student to perform a short field takeoff. The student pilot then requested and was cleared for takeoff from runway 28R by air traffic control. During the takeoff, both pilots reported that the engine did not sound normal and that the flight instructor took control of the airplane. An airport operations employee reported that he observed the airplane at a low altitude and heard sputtering engine noises. A second witness also observed the airplane at a low altitude, then descending below trees. The second witness rushed to the accident site. The airplane was found inverted at the edge of a drainage pond, about 2,000 ft from the departure end of runway 28R. The witness then noticed a fuel leak in the engine compartment. To secure the airplane, he entered the cockpit, rotated the fuel selector to the off position, turned off the master switch and removed the ignition key. Post accident examination of the wreckage at the accident site by an FAA inspector revealed substantial damage to the airplane’s fuselage, empennage and wings. Fuel was found in both wings and the fuel strainer. The fuel was visually examined and no contaminants were observed. The engine oil dipstick showed 4.5 quarts of oil in the engine. The wreckage was recovered and retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA26LA221
- Event ID
- 20260529203078
- Case number
- ERA26LA221
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, coordinates. 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: 3e2597fd986551571cca82e7519232b327bef12fabc1585374b800da1702faf6; retrieved 2026-09-16T21:34:35.225Z.