- Date
- December 3, 1983, 13:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- David City, NE
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89812Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831203060819A
- Case key
- 33599
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Analysis
The instructor plt (CFI) & his student departed on a round robin x-country flt & had planned to make a soft field landing at David City, NE. During arrival at David City, they made a visual check of the rwy because they were unable to contact the arpt UNICOM. They had no specific knowledge of whether the rwy had been cleared of snow from the previous week's snowfall. The CFI reported that while checking the rwy, they even let the main gear touch down to gauge the quality of the rwy surface. The CFI then elected to allow the student to practice a soft field landing. Shortly after touchdown, the main gear of the acft rolled through an area of drifted snow. The nose then dropped & the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89812
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282879
- Airframe hours
- 1,309
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Great Plains Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- John Snyder
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 3, 1983 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- 30A · Papillion, NE
- Airport
- 93Y · David City Municipal, runway 32, 2,300 × 250 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,950 total · 360 in this make and model · 1,840 as pilot in command · 95 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OLU, 17 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.