- Date
- January 15, 1982, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Malone, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5559TCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 15, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820115001139A
- Case key
- 71550
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Nose over
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - softFactor
Unsuitable terrain or takeoff/landing/taxi area - selectedCause
Analysis
The pilot elected to land on a runway with 800 feet of hard sod and 2700 feet of soft dirt. The aircraft nosed over when the nose wheel dug into the dirt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5559T
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17251459
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- Continental O-300D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- W. E. Wilks
- Registered owner
- W. E. Wilks
- Departed
- 4J9 · Warwick, GA
- Destination
- TLH · Tallahassee, FL
- Airport
- Taylor Farms, runway 36, 3,500 × 0 ft, grass/turf
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,619 total · 300 in this make and model · 3,530 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 15 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.