- Date
- February 28, 1989, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Rapids, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6418DCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890228002749A
- Case key
- 34757
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to adequately compensate for the crosswind conditions. Contributing to the accident were the gusty crosswind conditions.
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
While practicing take-offs and ldgs, the student pilot said that prior to touch-down during the landing flare, a gust of wind caused him to lose directional control. The acft veered off the runway into a snow bank, then overturned. A 60 degree crosswind of about 10 knots existed at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6418D
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17272793
- Airframe hours
- 4,606
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mesaba Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 8, 1988 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- GPZ · Grand Rapids, MN
- Airport
- GPZ · Grand Rapids, runway 34, 5,740 × 100 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 34 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 14 °F, dew point 1 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GPZ, 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.