Accident · 2003-01-18
What the record says
- Event date
- 2003-01-18
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Cessna 172P (N65906)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- COMAIR AVIATION ACADEMY Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Comair Aviation Academy, Inc.
Probable cause
The pilot's inflight loss of control and the pilot's failure to recover from the resultant dive for unknown reasons which resulted in flight beyond the design stress limits of the airplane and subsequent in flight airframe breakup.
Source: NTSB case MIA03FA043Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.