- Date
- December 14, 1982, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Big Bear City, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2962DCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821214067009A
- Case key
- 69943
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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
The accident occured after touchdown when the pilot temporarily lost control and the aircraft veered off the runway. The wing and propeller collided with a frozen snow bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2962D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26905
- Airframe hours
- 3,120
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles J. Thomas
- Registered owner
- Charles J. Thomas
- Departed
- L35 · Big Bear City, CA
- Destination
- L35 · Big Bear City, CA
- Airport
- L35 · Big Bear, runway 25, 5,850 × 75 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
- 57
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 32,664 total · 2 in this make and model · 32,190 as pilot in command · 277 in the last 90 days · 120 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
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 N2962D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.