- Date
- March 7, 1984, 13:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Broken Bow, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N52252Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840307009189A
- Case key
- 33648
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Weather condition - high windFactor
Weather evaluation - inadequateCause
Nose over
Analysis
A gust of wind overturned the acft during taxi from landing. The wind was from 330 degrees at 24 KTS gusting to 34 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52252
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274461
- Airframe hours
- 1,300
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-02J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- George Land
- Registered owner
- Hyde Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 12, 1983 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- 09K · Sargent, NE
- Airport
- BBW · Municipal, runway 32, 3,740 × 50 ft, concrete
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
- 51
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,200 total · 700 in this make and model · 7,000 as pilot in command · 99 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 24 knots, gusting 34
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BBW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.