- Date
- December 2, 1988, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Little Falls, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N65642Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881202052459A
- Case key
- 34729
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While attempting a touch and go ldg during a student solo cross country flt, directional control was lost during the takeoff phase on the snow packed runway. The student pilot said he had never landed and taken off under those runway conditions. The acft swerved to the left, collided with a snow bank and flipped inverted, substantially damaging the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65642
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275795
- Airframe hours
- 2,935
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flying Scotchman
- Registered owner
- Crowley, James J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Departed
- MIC · Minneapolis, MN
- Airport
- LXL · Little Falls, runway 12, 4,000 × 75 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 52 total · 52 in this make and model · 7 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BRD, 30 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.