- Date
- February 14, 1983, 18:45 local (Feb 15, 1983, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Wenden, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9645BCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830214005309A
- Case key
- 23614
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft drifted off the runway into a plowed area of a private airstrip during landing and nosed over. The private pilot reported that as he began to flare the acft for landing to the west a gust of wind from the north caused the acft to drift southward. The acft touched down in a plowed area adjacent to the airstrip and nosed over. The pilot reported the winds to be from the north at 20 KTS gusting to 25 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9645B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172RG0094L
- Airframe hours
- 677
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Superstition Air Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 26, 1982 · 92 hours before
- Departed
- Mesa, AZ
- Airport
- Alder Ranch, runway 26, 3,000 × ft, dirt
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
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,004 total · 7 in this make and model · 6,875 as pilot in command · 77 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 350° at 20 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
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 N9645B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.