- Date
- January 9, 1984, 11:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Custer, SD
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64253Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840109000439A
- Case key
- 16321
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Nose over
Analysis
The acft collided with a snow berm during landing and nosed over. The plt said they were hit by a wind shear crosswind from a valley 90 degrees to the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64253
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265126
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Manhattan Flying Tigers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 29, 1983
- Destination
- BZN · Bozeman, MT
- Airport
- SD01 · Custer County, runway 25, 4,500 × 100 ft, dirt
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 80 total · 54 in this make and model · 41 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAP, 30 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.