- Date
- August 29, 1987, 11:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Manila, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N43424Taylorcraft BC12-D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870829048539A
- Case key
- 17304
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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
The student plt was landing at an uncontrolled airport with an asphalt runway 5300 x 60 ft oriented 250 degrees. She said she made 3 passes over the airport to check for conditions and then executed a normal landing. Shortly after touchdown the aircraft encontered a gust of wind from 320 degrees at 15 knots and swerved off the runway to the left. After leaving the runway the aircraft collided with a ditch resulting in damage to several tubes in the fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N43424
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BC12-D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7083
- Airframe hours
- 2,400
- Engine
- Continental A-65, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brent W. Tolliver
- Registered owner
- Brent W Tolliver
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RKS · Rock Springs, WY
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 40U · Manila, runway 25, 5,300 × 60 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 73 total · 71 in this make and model · 31 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 40 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.