- Date
- August 4, 1989, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Brookfield, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9762ACessna 170A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890804027739A
- Case key
- 14395
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to take proper corrective action after encountering a wind gust on landing.
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 landing, the pilot encountered a wind gust, attempted to take off again, lost directional control and ran off the runway into a neighboring field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9762A
- Reported as
- Cessna 170A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19223
- Airframe hours
- 3,823
- Engine
- Continental C-145-2, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John & Mary Bousman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 6, 1989 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 02C
- Airport
- 02C · Capitol, runway 21, 3,555 × 45 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 275 total · 100 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKE, 15 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.
Other investigations on N9762A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.