- Date
- June 21, 1987, 14:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Paradise, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7121ACessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870621028349A
- Case key
- 17248
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Analysis
The plt departed bear lake arpt, montpelier, ID, and flew to logan, UT. He departed logan and flew to his father's ranch at avon, UT, near Paradise. A 1400-FT dirt/gravel driveway leading to the ranch house was used as a rwy. The plt said he helped his father install a barbed wire fence near the rwy threshold to keep cattle in a pasture. He said when he had landed at the ranch on previous occasions, the fence was never up. He said that on the day of the accident, cattle had been moved from one pasture to another and, unknown to him, the fence was raised. He said he did not see the fence when he circled the ranch and assumed it was down. The acft collided with the fence as it was flared for landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7121A
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 29221
- Airframe hours
- 4,953
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Denzil K. Forsberg
- Registered owner
- Denzil K Forsberg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 12, 1986
- Departed
- 107 · Montpelier, ID
- Airport
- Forsberg Ranch, runway 17, 1,400 × ft, dirt
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Flight crew
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- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 321 total · 297 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LGU, 13 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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