# NTSB CEN18WA161: Cessna 172, Hagfors, Sweden, April 22, 2018

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Foreign investigation
- Date: April 22, 2018, 12:40 local (12:40 UTC)
- Place: Hagfors, Sweden
- Coordinates: 60.025001, 13.580555 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=60.0250&lon=13.5806&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/090)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: FreeFlight Systems, Swedish Accident Investigation Authority
- NTSB case key (mKey): 97177
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN18WA161
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/97177/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN18WA161

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/090) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,506 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/090/sequence.md)

## Factual narrative

On April 22, 2018, at 1240 coordinated universal time, a Cessna F172E single-engine airplane, Swedish registration SE-EHI, serial number F172-0039, encountered soft terrain and nosed over upon landing at Hagfors Airport (ESOH), near Hagfors, Sweden. The student pilot was not injured, and the airplane sustained substantial damage. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local instructional flight.The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Swedish Government and further information may be obtained from: Statens Haverikommission (Swedish Accident Investigation Authority) P.O. Box 6014 SE-102 31 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 508 862 00 Fax: +46 8 508 862 90 Email: info@havkom.se Webpage: www.havkom.se This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority.

## Aircraft

- Registration: SE-EHI (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172 (E)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: F172-0039
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator: Hagfors Flyghlubb
- Registered owner: Hagfors Flyghlubb
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: ESOH, Hagfors
- Destination: ESOH, Hagfors
- Flight plan: Unknown
- Airport: ESOH, Hagfors Airport

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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