- Date
- January 4, 1987, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hartsville, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N70493Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870104000109A
- Case key
- 7365
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt made two go-arounds before starting his third landing attempt with a variable wind. After touchdown the acft veered to the right and departed the rwy. The plt applied power in an attempt to take-off but the nose wheel hit a hole and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70493
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267220
- Airframe hours
- 5,140
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aircraft Services Of Raleigh
- Registered owner
- Marbell Properties, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 1987 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- FLO · Florence, SC
- Airport
- HVS · Hartsville Municipal, runway 20, 3,300 × 75 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
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 44 total · 5 in this make and model · 17 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLO, 23 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.