- Date
- February 18, 2012, 15:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- South Fork, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N56180Cessna 180
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- FAA report
- 20120218002049A
- Case key
- 82919
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Probable cause
The pilot's loss of directional control while landing on a patchy snow-covered runway.
Findings · 3
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
The pilot stated that, during the landing roll on a patchy snow-covered runway, he lost directional control when the airplane contacted a patch of snow. The airplane nosed over and came to rest in the inverted position. The airplane’s vertical fin and one wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot did not report any preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
After landing on a patchy, snowed covered runway, the pilot stated that he lost directional control when the airplane contacted a patch of snow. The airplane nosed over and came to rest in the inverted position. Substantial damage was sustained to the airplane’s vertical fin and one wing. The pilot did not report any preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56180
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32165
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Standhart Gary
- Registered owner
- Standhart Gary
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DRO · Durango, CO
- Destination
- CD69 · South Fork, CO
- Airport
- CD69 · Morning Shadow, runway 16, 4,480 × 80 ft, grass/turf
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KALS, 36 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.