- Date
- January 6, 1993, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Warren, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6176GCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930106000169A
- Case key
- 15646
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control.
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 departed a runway with ice and packed snow, flew a roundabout route, and returned for a crosswind landing on the same runway. The airplane drifted to the side of the runway during landing roll, struck banked snow and overturned.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6176G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273575
- Airframe hours
- 4,276
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Holy, Mark D.
- Registered owner
- Holy, Mark D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 19, 1992 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- D37
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- D37 · Warren Municipal, runway 12, 3,205 × 75 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 23 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -2 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GFK, 23 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.