- Date
- March 1, 1990, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Garden City, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4332VCessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900301004819A
- Case key
- 34935
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Probable cause
Directional control not maintained by the pilot in command.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
While attempting to land the tail wheel acft, the pilot lost directional control, and veered off the runway colliding with a snow bank. The left main gear was torn off and the right wing tip sustained additional damage along with the propeller blades.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4332V
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7238
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-9, 245 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald E. Terry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- GUP · Gallup, NM
- Airport
- GCK · Garden City, runway 17, 5,999 × 150 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 6,096 total · 96 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- GCK, 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.
Other investigations on N4332V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.