Cessna 172 N5070A

Summary

On 2 September 2005 at about 15:30 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N5070A was involved in an accident near Yuma, Arizona, United States. 2 people were on board and one died, one was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

2 September 2005 at 15:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Yuma, Arizona, United States

Nearest airport

Yuma International Airport (YUM)

Coordinates

32.6564, -114.6058

Aircraft

Cessna 172

Registration

N5070A

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Yuma → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX05LA286

1 person died.

the pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed on short final, which resulted in an inadvertent stall.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane stalled on short final and impacted the runway's displaced threshold in a nose low pitch attitude and erupted in flames. The pilot was flying the airplane from the right seat, with a passenger occupying the left seat in order to take some aerial photographs of nearby property. The airplane was on final approach and the pilot was conducting a full-flap landing. He reported that everything was fine, but the airplane began descending too fast. He applied some power to go-around, but the airplane encountered a gust of wind and stalled on short final. Witnesses at the airport observed the airplane on short final. The nose pitched up to a level position about 50 feet above the ground and then nosed down until impact with the ground. The weather observation facility at the airport was reporting the wind at 7 knots down the runway. The airplane was not equipped with shoulder harnesses.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.