So that must be one o' them low-wing Cessnas I keep hearing about in the news...
Seriously though, it is not exactly unheard of to rebuild a plane that the NTSB lists as "destroyed". I began to investigate a bit further, thinking it would be awfully odd for a plane with a certificate issue date of 1991 to have been destroyed in 1998 and had the registration issued to another plane, identical make and model (172P even), and somehow be re-registered without the date being updated.
However, this time, it's a case of mass dyslexia.
Jesse flew N99
604, which is registered to Flying Scotchman Inc. at Crystal Airport, and has been registered to them since 1991.
The accident airplane was N99
064, which is listed as deregistered (destroyed) to a Mr. William J Peterson in Scottsdale, AZ which was also the site of the accident.
Mystery solved.