- Date
- January 22, 1985, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Village, IN
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N12SGSaabye Cassutt Sport Racer
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850122002139A
- Case key
- 12991
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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.
Analysis
The acft nosed over after colliding with a snow bank during landing. A snow covered driveway, which parallels the rwy was used for landing. The driveway measures 2600'X 25' and the landing was made to the north. The acft was blown to the right during the landing roll and the right main landing gear contacted a snow bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12SG
- Reported as
- Saabye Cassutt Sport Racer (CASSUTT SP)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- TDH-2
- Airframe hours
- 326
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roy C. Neeley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 11, 1984
- Departed
- 05C · Griffith, IN
- Airport
- C98 · Lake Village
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
- 56
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 7,233 total · 7 in this make and model · 7,150 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 28 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.