- Date
- March 24, 1989, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Dodge, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N35053Cessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890324004539A
- Case key
- 34772
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to adequately compensate for existing wind conditions, to flare properly, and to recover properly from a bounced landing. The gusty x-wind conditions contributed to the accident.
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 plt rprtd that while landing in a gusty x-wind condition, the acft encountered moderate turbulence during the landing flare. He said the acft porpoised two or three times, then it dropped on the nose wheel & was damaged. The x-wind was 60 degrees from the right at 16 gusting 20 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35053
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2178
- Airframe hours
- 1,903
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- S And S Flyers, Ltd
- Registered owner
- S & S Flyers, Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 25, 1988 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- DSM · Des Moines, IA
- Destination
- FOD
- Airport
- FOD · Fort Dodge, runway 12, 4,400 × 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,462 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 2,462 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 16 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FOD, 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.