- Date
- January 2, 2022, 21:05 local (Jan 3, 2022, 03:05 UTC)
- Place
- Minocqua, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4209QCessna 172L
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220102000179A
- Case key
- 104487
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of control during landing when the airplane encountered ice and snow on the 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 reported that while landing following a night instrument flight, on a known contaminated runway and employing aerodynamic braking, the airplane contacted a snow and ice patch and veered to the left. The airplane continued left until it contacted an unplowed snowbank on the left side of the runway and nosed over coming to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings, both ailerons, the vertical stabilizer, and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot reported that prior to the flight he had filed and instrument flight plan and was aware of a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that at most 10% of the runway had compacted snow. An area 60-ft wide was plowed and swept.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4209Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 172L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17260109
- Built
- 1971
- Airframe hours
- 4,761.1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lakeland Aviation Of Minocqua Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 28, 2021 · 23.7 hours before
- Departed
- KSTC · St. Cloud, MN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ARV · Lakeland/Noble F Lee Meml Fld, runway 36, 5,150 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B
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
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- August 4, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 310 total · 60 in this make and model · 264 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -2 °F, dew point -24 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- KARV
- METAR
- KARV 030255Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR M19/M31 A3014 RMK AO2 T11861315
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 28, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.