- Date
- June 9, 1991, 16:30 local (Jun 10, 1991, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kenai, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N81074Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19910609020599A
- Case key
- 5552
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor was the gusty wind conditions.
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
According to the student pilot, he was performing his solo cross country flight from anchorage, lake hood strip to Kenai and return. He stated that upon landing at Kenai, with the intentions of performing a touch and go landing a gust of wind caused right wing to go up and the left contacted the surface of the runway and the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81074
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10368
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stanley Joe Kindblade
- Registered owner
- Stanley Joe Kindblade
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- LHD · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ENA · Kenai, runway 19, 7,600 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 76 total · 25 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ENA, 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.
Other investigations on N81074 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.