- Date
- December 13, 1990, 07:50 local (13:50 UTC)
- Place
- Austin, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1489UCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901213053909A
- Case key
- 14980
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command (student)'s failure to properly evaluate and compensate for gusty wind condiitons and to maintain directional of the aircraft during initial climb. Contributing was the student pilot's lack of total experience and wind gusts.
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
On initial climb from runway 36, the winds were reported as 310 degrees at 14 knots, gusting to 20 knots. The aircraft drifted to the left and impacted a snowbank. The 20 hour student pilot stated, '...it felt like a large blast of wind pushed me sideways and I tipped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1489U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267156
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Austin Aeroflight, Inc.
- Departed
- AUM
- Airport
- AUM · Austin Muni., runway 36, 4,797 × 100 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 14 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- AEL, 20 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.