- Date
- April 12, 1990, 15:47 local (23:47 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46410Cessna 172-K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900412008469A
- Case key
- 5291
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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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command used poor judgement when he elected to take off on rough & uneven frozen lake which resulted in a failed nose ski.
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.
Analysis
The pilot attempted a takeoff to the west on a frozen lake. Ice/snow was crusty and rough at lift off the nose ski failed and began hitting the fuselage. The pilot elected to land straight ahead. Landed high on main wheel skis. As nose strut touched down it went through snow crust & collapsed. A/c stopped on its nose.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46410
- Reported as
- Cessna 172-K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257249
- Airframe hours
- 3,158
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Frank Pinkerton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 19, 1989 · 33 hours before
- Airport
- WEST · Lake Hood, runway 27, ice
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,700 total · 900 in this make and model · 4,650 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.