- Date
- May 5, 1985, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Strongsville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N89599Cessna 120
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850505023829A
- Case key
- 13058
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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
While on final apch the headwind changed to a quartering left crosswind. A sudden loss of alt occurred and the acft contacted the displaced threshold and weathervaned into the wind. The acft traveled off the side of the rwy and nosed over in an area of grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89599
- Reported as
- Cessna 120
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8646
- Airframe hours
- 1,998
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12-F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas J. Madden
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 23, 1985 · 27 hours before
- Airport
- IG6 · Strongsville, runway 27, 2,865 × 36 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
- 39
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 408 total · 86 in this make and model · 366 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE, 5 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.