- Date
- January 27, 1985, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Three Rivers, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5603CCessna 140A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850127001859A
- Case key
- 12994
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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 ski equipped aircraft was taxiing on the frozen surface of the lake when the two bottom bolts that attached the right ski to the gear leg failed the overload failed the two top bolts and the ski failed out and up at a forty five degree angle this permitted the gear leg to dig into the ice and nose the acft over inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5603C
- Reported as
- Cessna 140A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15536
- Engine
- Continental C90 SERIES, 95 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harris Boulette
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 5, 1984 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- HAI
- Destination
- Corey Lake, MI
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
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,030 total · 750 in this make and model · 970 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBN, 36 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.