- Date
- May 11, 1991, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Coalinga, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73001Cessna C172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910511015369A
- Case key
- 27203
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Probable cause
The pilot's encounter with a dust devil which resulted in his loss of control during landing rollout.
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
Approaching the destination airport the pilot noted that the local wind was calm. The pilot made a normal landing and during rollout he lost control of the airplane. The airplane veered off the runway and it nosed over in a soft dirt field. A flight instructor, who witnessed the accident, reported observing a dust devil in the area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73001
- Reported as
- Cessna C172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267232
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Patterson Aviation
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- SAC · Sacramento, CA
- Airport
- CLG · Coalinga Muni, runway 3, 4,600 × 60 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 160 total · 80 in this make and model · 80 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.