- Date
- January 28, 2004, 09:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N70256Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 1, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA, Indianapolis-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20040128003559A
- Case key
- 58728
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Probable cause
The pilot selecting a closed runway for landing and the collapse of the nose landing gear. Factors were the pilot's failure to obtain NOTAM information and the snowbank across the closed runway.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The airplane landed on a closed runway and struck a ridge of snow and ice collapsing the nose landing gear. There were no mechanical difficulties with respect to the airplane. The runway had been closed and a Notice to Airmen had been issued.
Factual narrative
On January 28, 2004, about 0915 eastern standard time, a Cessna 172M, N70256, piloted by a commercial pilot, sustained substantial damage during landing on runway 32 (3,899 feet by 75 feet, asphalt), at the Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The airplane struck a snowbank on the unplowed runway. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The flight originated from Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky, about 0845.
The pilot reported that he "landed on closed runway 14-32." The runway had been closed and the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a Notice to Airmen to that effect. JVY also has a second runway, 18-36, that intersects runway 14-32. Runway 18-36 had been plowed leaving ridges of snow and ice at the edge of runway 18-36 and crossing runway 14-32. During the landing, the nose landing gear collapsed when it impacted the snow/ice ridge adjacent to runway 18-36. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70256
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267199
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- A & J Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LOU · Louisville, KY
- Destination
- JVY · Jeffersonville, IN
- Airport
- JVY · Clark County, runway 32, 3,899 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Last flight review
- August 5, 2003
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,447 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 2,207 as pilot in command · 189 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- KLOU, 10 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.
Other investigations on N70256 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.