- Date
- July 6, 1982, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Plymouth, IN
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8220ACessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 6, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820706026109A
- Case key
- 72263
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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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Touch-and-go - performedFactor
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Nose over
Analysis
Pilot practicing touch and go landings. During roll aircraft swerved off runway and in jumping a ditch dug a wing into ground and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8220A
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25072
- Airframe hours
- 4,431
- Engine
- Continental C-145, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cholla Flyers
- Registered owner
- Cholla Flyers
- Departed
- C65 · Plymouth, IN
- Destination
- C65 · Plymouth, IN
- Airport
- C65 · Plymouth Municipal, runway 10, 4,700 × 60 ft, asphalt
N8220ARegistration cancelled Nov 9, 2012 · Cessna 170BAirframe modelCessna 170BEngine modelContinental C145 series
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 419 total · 393 in this make and model · 393 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 183 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBN, 20 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.