- Date
- January 26, 1991, 12:08 local (18:08 UTC)
- Place
- Rochester, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9419ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910126001089A
- Case key
- 15002
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Probable cause
Inadequate compensation or wind conditions, and failure to maintain directional control by the pilot. Factors related to the accident are lack of total experience, and the crosswind conditions.
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
Student pilot returning from a solo cross country flight attempted to land with an 18 knot crosswind 40 degrees left of runway heading. Pilot reported that aircraaft began to skip to the right on landing roll, and that the wind lifted the left wing. Pilot corrected the wing lift with alleron, but the aircraft continue to move to the right until it struck a snowbank alongside the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9419E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17272255
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aerodrome Avaition, Inc.
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- MKT · Mankato, MN
- Airport
- RST · Rochester Muni, runway 31, 7,533 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 3 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
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 N9419E · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.