- Date
- January 26, 1991, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rochester, IN
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4414BCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910126001039A
- Case key
- 15000
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. A factor contributing to the accident was the crosswind.
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 tailwheel equipped aircraft landed on runway 29. The wind at a reporting facility 25 nautical miles to the south indicated the wind to be 260 degrees at 12 knots. After touchdown, directional control was lost and the aircraft exited the runway to the right. The pilot stated that he then attempted to abort the landing. The aircraft flew across a ditch, touched down on a railroad right-of-way and impacted a tree stump at a fence line.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4414B
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26758
- Airframe hours
- 2,447
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Glenn E. Dee Jr.
- Registered owner
- Glenn E. Dee Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · June 12, 1990 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- I81 · Michigan City, IN
- Airport
- RCR · Fulton County, runway 29, 3,200 × 60 ft, asphalt
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--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 918 total · 500 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- GUS, 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.