Accident · 1997-05-12
What the record says
- Event date
- 1997-05-12
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Serious injury
- Aircraft
- Cessna 172P (N65983)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- American Flyers Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- AMERICAN FLYERS
Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision which allowed the student to solo at night with less than one hour of night instruction with a known inoperative landing and taxi light. A Factor was the student pilot's spatial disorientation which resulted in the loss of control.
Source: NTSB case NYC97LA090Flight 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.