- Date
- June 10, 1990, 15:29 local (22:29 UTC)
- Place
- Concord, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2672DCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900610019449A
- Case key
- 26838
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Probable cause
The pilot failed maintain directional control by his failure to compensate for the existing wind conditions.
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 certificated commercial pilot/flight instructor noted that a crosswind existed at the airport. The airplane touched down normally, but during the landing roll-out the pilot failed to maintain directional control by failing to properly compensate for the existing wind conditions. The left main gear collapsed during the subsequent ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2672D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20824
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kirk D. Heineman
- Departed
- SQL · San Carlos, CA
- Airport
- CCR · Concord, runway 19L, 2,768 × 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 644 total · 17 in this make and model · 530 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 13 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CCR
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 N2672D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.