- Date
- July 3, 2000, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Price, UT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N51208Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000703013009A
- Case key
- 49602
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during landing roll. Factors were strong and gusty winds.
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
At the completion of a local area flight, the pilot was performing the landing on runway 18 with wind from 170 degrees at 20 knots with gusts to 28 knots. The airplane departed the side of the runway during landing roll causing damage to the right main landing gear, right lift strut, and propeller.
Factual narrative
On July 3, 2000, at 1230 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 172P, N51208, sustained substantial damage when it departed the side of the runway during landing roll at Price, Utah. The private pilot and sole occupant was not injured. The flight was operating as a local area flight under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
According to the pilot, he was landing on runway 18 and a gust of wind caused the aircraft to depart the left side of the runway. Recorded wind at the time was from 170 degrees magnetic heading at 20 knots with gusts to 28 knots.
Damage to the aircraft was to the right main landing gear, right lift strut and propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51208
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274280
- Airframe hours
- 8,600
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-P2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mikel L. Johnson
- Registered owner
- Arrow West Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 26, 2000 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- PUC
- Airport
- PUC · Carbon County, runway 18, 8,300 × 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 147 total · 115 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 20 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PUC, 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.