- Date
- February 1, 1984, 21:35 local (Feb 2, 1984, 03:35 UTC)
- Place
- Lk In The Hills, IL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3631SCessna 172E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840201002469A
- Case key
- 12540
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.
Hard landing
Light condition - nightFactor
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - wetFactor
Terrain condition - snow coveredFactor
Flare - misjudgedCause
Visual/aural detectionFactor
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not possible
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolled
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
The plt made a hard landing which damaged the nose gear making it impossible for the plt to avoid a collision with a snowbank during a subsequent landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3631S
- Reported as
- Cessna 172E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7250831
- Airframe hours
- 3,982
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ronnie D. Owen
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1983
- Departed
- WMC · Milwaukee, WI
- Airport
- 3CK · Lake In The Hills, runway 26, 3,000 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 351 total · 351 in this make and model · 283 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.