- Date
- March 24, 1992, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Erie, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3328DCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920324007869A
- Case key
- 18205
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Probable cause
A loss of directional control when the pilot failed to adequately compensate for crosswind conditions during landing roll. A factor was: a 27 knot crosswind gust.
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
While conducting a landing with a 27 knot gusting direct crosswind, the pilot failed to adequately compensate for the wind conditions. Control was not maintained and the aircraft exited the side of the runway into a ditch where it overturned.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3328D
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32126
- Airframe hours
- 1,200
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stanley H. Peterson, Jr.
- Registered owner
- Stanley H. Peterson, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- IV5 · Boulder, CO
- Airport
- 48V · Tri County, runway 33, 4,700 × 60 ft, concrete
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 100 in this make and model · 12,000 as pilot in command · 210 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 18 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N3328D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.