Cessna 172P N127EP

Summary

On 18 July 2012 at about 17:00 local time, a Cessna 172P registered N127EP, operated by Florida Aviation Career Training, Inc, was involved in an accident near St. Augustine, Florida, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

18 July 2012 at 17:00

Classification

Accident

Location

St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Nearest airport

Unknown (UNK)

Coordinates

29.9592, -81.3397

Aircraft

Cessna 172P

Registration

N127EP

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Florida Aviation Career Training, Inc

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Unknown → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA12CA466

Nobody was injured.

Undetermined due to a lack of information about when the damage to the airplane occurred.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

During a scheduled 100-hour inspection, maintenance personnel discovered structural damage to the airplane’s firewall. According to the flight school’s records, the airplane had been flown 91.4 hours on 77 flights between the time of the previous 100 hour inspection and the time when the damage was discovered. The flight school was never notified of an event that would have possibly caused the firewall damage. Therefore, the actual time and date and the circumstances of the accident could not be determined.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.