- Date
- April 12, 1983, 18:10 local (Apr 13, 1983, 01:10 UTC)
- Place
- Plentywood, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9592ACessna 170A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830412016019A
- Case key
- 16064
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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
Pilot was practicing touch and go landings on runway 30. Pilot stated that on landing roll as he closed the carburetor heat control preparing for another takeoff a gust caught the right wing lifting it up. The pilot corrected by using right aileron and left rudder but the aircraft weathervaned into the wind and went off the right side of the runway. The wind was 020 degrees, 5 KTS. The left wing was bent two feet inboard from the wingtip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9592A
- Reported as
- Cessna 170A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19153
- Airframe hours
- 4,026
- Engine
- Franklin O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dale Wayne Adams
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 4, 1983 · 12 hours before
- Airport
- PWD · Sherwood, runway 30, 3,900 × 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 185 total · 4 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.