- Date
- May 17, 1986, 20:00 local (May 18, 1986, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tracy, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7176TCessna 172B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860517023819A
- Case key
- 25167
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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 acft veered off a rural dirt road being used as an airstrip and nosed over in a farm field. The plt indicated that he was attempting to land on a narrow dirt farm road when the acft veered into a freshly plowed and irrigated tomato field. The nose gear sank and the acft nosed over. The plt also indicated that the dirt road was aprx 10 ft wide. The operators manual for the Cessna 172A illistrates the width of the main landing gear as 7 ft 2 inches.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7176T
- Reported as
- Cessna 172B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17246776
- Airframe hours
- 2,651
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry J Fistolera
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 1985 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- Tracy, CA
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 574 total · 409 in this make and model · 499 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.