- Date
- February 7, 1982, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Greencastle, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7804UCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820207002779A
- Case key
- 70899
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student arrived at the airport on a cross-country flight and requested landing advisories on the UNICOM frequency. The student stated that somebody replied that runway 18 was in use. Before landing, the pilot overflew the airport 4 times. Two of these were low passes. The pilot noted tire tracks which he estimated were about one inch deep. However, the runway was covered with 8 to 10 inches of snow. The pilot made a soft field landing. During the landing roll, the aircraft slowly nosed over after it had decelerated and was almost stopped. The latest snowfall had occurred about 5 days before the accident. The runway had not been plowed after the snowfall nor had the nearest flight service station been informed of the runway condition. No airport personnel had made transmissions on the UNICOM just prior to the accident. However, there were several airports in the area that had north-south runways and utilized the same UNICOM frequency.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7804U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17251804
- Airframe hours
- 3,037
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Touch N Go Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Touch N Go Flying Club
- Departed
- Decatur, IL
- Destination
- Indianapolis, IN
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 4I7 · Putnam County, runway 36, 3,200 × 0 ft, macadam
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 39 in this make and model · 19 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Observed at
- IND, 25 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.