- Date
- August 2, 1991, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wheeling, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N97650Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910802031469A
- Case key
- 15146
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Probable cause
Inadequate compensation for wind conditions and directional control was not maintained by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were a gusty crosswind landing environment and a ditch.
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 pilot said that during the landing roll, in a gusty crosswind, directional control was lost. The acft veered off the runway colliding with some brush and a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N97650
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276218
- Airframe hours
- 3,352
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ate American Flyers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · July 24, 1991 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- RFD · Rockford, IL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PWK · Palwaukee, runway 16, 5,137 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 49 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 16 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PWK, 1 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 N97650 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.