- Date
- March 24, 1991, 14:17 local (20:17 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Marais, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7010KPiper PA-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910324007319A
- Case key
- 15035
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control. The crosswind and snow covered runway were related factors.
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 student pilot was landing on a snow covered runway. The aircraft encountered a crosswind, directional control was lost, and the aircraft exited the runway, impacted a snowbank, and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7010K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 116
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290, 135 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Verl J. Tilbury
- Registered owner
- Verl J. Tilbury
- Airport
- GRM · Devils Track, runway 27, 2,809 × 60 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 110 total · 75 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N7010K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.