- Date
- June 10, 2004, 15:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N737SVCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 1, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20040610011569A
- Case key
- 59545
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Probable cause
Directional control not obtained/maintained by the pilot during landing roll.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The flying club airplane veered off the runway and nosed over during a personal flight by a commercial rated rental pilot. Examination of the airplane revealed no anomalies that would of precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
On June 10, 2004, at 1510 central daylight time, a Cessna 172N, N737SV, operated by Page Flying Club Inc. as a rental airplane, received substantial damage during landing roll on runway 16 (4,400 feet by 60 feet) at Deck Airport (5ND9), Hillsboro, North Dakota. The airplane veered off the runway and nosed over. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was not operating on a flight plan. The commercial rated rental pilot was uninjured. The local flight originated from 5ND9 at 1445.
The Grand Forks, North Dakota, Automated Surface Observing System, located 28 nautical miles north of 5ND9, recorded at 1453, wind 130 degrees at 16 knots gusting to 21 knots.
According to the Cessna 172N Information Manual, the maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity for takeoff or landing is 15 knots.
No anomalies were noted with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N737SV
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269648
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Page Flying Club Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5ND9 · Hillsboro, ND
- Destination
- 5ND9
- Airport
- 5ND9 · Deck Airport, runway 16
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 740 total · 80 in this make and model · 216 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.