- Date
- October 7, 1985, 14:11 local (19:11 UTC)
- Place
- Salina, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N1587ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851007053699A
- Case key
- 34100
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 pilot did not top off the fuel tanks before departing lincoln, NE for pratt, KS. Enroute winds necessitated a fuel stop at Salina, KS. These same winds flipped over the airplane as it was turning off the runway to taxi in.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1587E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271053
- Airframe hours
- 280
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hirt Farms, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 8, 1985 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- LNK · Lincoln, NE
- Airport
- SLN · Salina Municipal, runway 17, 13,300 × 300 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 300 in this make and model · 45 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 29 knots, gusting 40
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLN, 1 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.