Cessna 172 accident near London, OH
On April 18, 2023, a Cessna 172 (airplane) was involved in an accident near London, OH. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- April 18, 2023
- Place
- London, OH
- Aircraft
- Cessna 172 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 39.932°N, 83.469°W
- NTSB ID
- 20230418107083
Official records · ERA23FA200
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
On April 18, 2023, at 1820 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172N, N734GB, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near London, Ohio. The flight instructor and student pilot were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to the airport manager, the flight instructor recently rented three hangars and was in the process of building a flight school with new students. The flight instructor recently moved to Ohio, and brought one airplane with him, which was the accident airplane, and he was going to bring two more from where he moved. The airport manager believed that the accident flight was the student pilot’s first flight. According to ADS-B data, the airplane was decelerating during the final approach to runway 27 at Madison County Airport (UYF), London, Ohio. Specifically, when the airplane was about 500 ft from the runway, its calculated groundspeed was 54 knots, or about 70 knots airspeed when accounting for the prevailing headwind. About 150 ft from the runway, the data indicated the airplane’s calculated groundspeed was 46 knots, or about 62 knots airspeed. According to a pilot operating handbook for the make and model airplane, the stall speed with full flaps extended was 44 knots. The flight instructor’s logbooks were not recovered. According to FAA data, the flight instructor received his flight instructor certification on October 13, 1998. The wreckage was located inverted about 1 ft from the end of runway 27, on a magnetic heading of 270°. The damage correlated with the airpl
Probable cause
The flight instructor’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall at an altitude too low for recovery.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
