- Date
- October 27, 2008, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ingleside, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1714FCessna 172H
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 25, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- Case key
- 69368
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Probable cause
The pilot's decision to land in crosswind conditions, leading to his inability to maintain directional control. Contributing to the accident were the crosswinds.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
While landing on a heading of 310 degrees, the airplane went off the left side of the runway and nosed over. Winds were from 010 degrees at 27 knots. According to the Pilot's Operating Handbook, the maximum demonstrated crosswind component for the Cessna 172H is 090 degrees at 15 knots. Using the Crosswind Component Chart, it was computed that the crosswind component for the airplane was 23 knots.
Factual narrative
On October 27, 2008, at 1026 central daylight time, a Cessna 172H, N1714F, registered to and operated by the pilot, was substantially damaged when the airplane nosed over during landing approach at T.P. McCampbell Airport (T43), Ingleside, Texas. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The personal flight was being conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 without a flight plan. The pilot, the sole occupant aboard, was not injured. The local flight originated at an undetermined time from Ingleside. The pilot told an FAA inspector that he landed on runway 31. The airplane went off the left side of the runway and nosed over. He said the winds were from 010 degrees at 27 knots. According to the Pilot's Operating Handbook, the maximum demonstrated crosswind component for the Cessna 172H is 090 degrees at 15 knots. Using the Crosswind Component Chart, it was computed that the crosswind component for N1714F was 23 knots. The pilot was asked several times to submit NTSB Form 6120.1/2, Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report. The report was never received.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1714F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17255109
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Miller Johnny D
- Registered owner
- Miller Johnny D
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- T43 · Ingleside, TX
- Destination
- T43 · Ingleside, TX
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- T43 · T.P. McCampbell, runway 31, 5,000 × 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
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 356 total · 356 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 27 knots