- Date
- April 27, 1983, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hammonton, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4861GCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35177
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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 acft swerved off the runway into a soft field and nosed over during landing. The landing was on runway 21 and the wind was from 240 degrees at 10 KTS. The acft had rolled about 1000 feet when it began to veer to the right. The pilot tried left rudder and aileron. This did not stop the swerve so the pilot tried left aileron and left brake. The aircraftleft the runway and went 50 feet into a plowed field where it nosed over as it stopped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4861G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273408
- Airframe hours
- 1,508
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320HZAD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Macdan Aviation Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1982 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- CDW · Caldwell, NJ
- Destination
- N81 · Hammonton, NJ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- N81 · Hammonton, runway 21, 3,000 × 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 62 total · 62 in this make and model · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg