- Date
- February 14, 1987, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Charlevoix, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8896BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870214002809A
- Case key
- 13734
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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
Upon landing the nose wheel buckled after striking a snowbank and the aircraft flipped over. Pilot reported there was a problem with the nose wheel although inspection of the nose wheel after the accident did not reveal any malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8896B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36596
- Airframe hours
- 2,721
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charlevoix Soaring Club, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Charlevoix Soaring Club Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 1987 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- Y94 · East Jordan, MI
- Destination
- CVX
- Airport
- CVX · Charlevoix Muni., runway 8, 4,500 × 75 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 212 total · 42 in this make and model · 173 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 9 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PLN, 25 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.