- Date
- September 5, 1993, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Trenton, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89467Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 7, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930905034389A
- Case key
- 9310
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve and subsequent nose over of the airplane.
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 reported he was landing on a sod strip typically used by ultralight airplanes. During the landing roll, the pilot lost directional control. The airplane went off the left side of the runway and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On September 5, 1993, about 1000 central daylight time, a Cessna 140 airplane, N89467, nosed over during landing on a sod strip near Trenton, Illinois. The solo commercial pilot reported no injury. The airplane was substantially damaged. Visual meteorological conditions existed for the personal flight. The flight originated from Centralia, Illinois, about 0930 without a flight plan and operated under 14 CFR 91.
The pilot reported he landed on a sod strip typically used by ultralight airplanes. During the landing roll he lost directional control. The airplane veered left and went off the left side of the runway. The airplane encountered soybean plants adjacent to the runway's edge and nosed over.
No preimpact mechanical anomalies were claimed or discovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89467
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8499
- Airframe hours
- 2,500
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jerry A. Wacker
- Registered owner
- Jerry A. Wacker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Provisional (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 5, 1993 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- ENL · Centralia, IL
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- Ultralight Strip
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 27 in this make and model · 2,641 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.