- Date
- April 11, 1982, 08:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Gallup, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8408UCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 11, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820411008829A
- Case key
- 70804
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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
On the second landing of the flight the aircraft veered to the left and departed the runway. The aircraft nosed over after hitting soft dirt and a drainage ditch. The pilot stated that the aircraft swerved on the first landing and he felt that the passenger may have had his foot on the left rudder pedal. The aircraft was being flown from the right seat with the passenger in the left seat.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8408U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17252308
- Airframe hours
- 2,382
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bernard J. Musso, Jr.
- Registered owner
- Spencer V. Johns
- Departed
- GUP · Gallup, NM
- Destination
- GUP · Gallup, NM
- Airport
- GUP · Senator Clark, runway 24, 6,300 × 100 ft, macadam
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,239 total · 23 in this make and model · 238 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 131 °F
- Observed at
- GUP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.