- Date
- December 28, 1989, 12:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Broomfield, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N75702Cessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891228053719A
- Case key
- 17876
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. The snowbank was a related factor.
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 pilot rprtd that during a landing the acft began to veer to the right. She said she applied opposite rudder, but the acft went off the rwy, hit a snowbank & nosed over. No preaccident part failure or malfunction was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75702
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267884
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Air West Flying Club, doing business as Wings Of Denver
- Registered owner
- Airwest Flying Club
- Destination
- BJC
- Airport
- BJC · Jefferson County, runway 29, 9,000 × 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 62 total · 7 in this make and model · 29 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- BJC, 1 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.