- Date
- January 19, 1987, 14:05 local (18:05 UTC)
- Place
- Chena Hot Sprgs, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N97811Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870119000719A
- Case key
- 4815
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
The pilot stated that after touchdown on the snow covered airstrip he lost directional control of the aircraft causing the plane to groundloop.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - snow coveredFactor
Airport snow removal - not performedCause
Aircraft handling - not maintainedCause
Stall/mush - inadvertentCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N97811
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276232
- Airframe hours
- 720
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D25, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Fort Wainwright Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- FBK · Ft. Wainwright, AK
- Destination
- Chena Hot Sprgs, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Chena Hot Springs, runway 30, 3,200 × 60 ft, snow
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,156 total · 16 in this make and model · 949 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N97811 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.