- Date
- August 25, 1988, 11:17 local (17:17 UTC)
- Place
- Rawlins, WY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3455VCessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880825035259A
- Case key
- 17531
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,steering system - movement restrictedCause
Maintenance - inadequateCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not possibleFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3455V
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7152
- Airframe hours
- 4,744
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-A2, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Norman P. Harvey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 13, 1988 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- CPR · Casper, WY
- Destination
- RWL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RWL · Rawlins Municipal, runway 22, 7,000 × 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
- 43
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,520 total · 25 in this make and model · 1,376 as pilot in command · 108 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RWL, 2 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.