- Date
- June 2, 1985, 08:45 local (12:45 UTC)
- Place
- Toughkenamon, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5288GCessna 305A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850602026879A
- Case key
- 35889
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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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - hidden obstruction(s)Cause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Analysis
The acft ground looped during a landing roll on a sod rwy. The plt stated that during the landing roll, it felt as if the right main gear contacted a knoll of grass resulting in the acft ground looping to the right.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5288G
- Reported as
- Cessna 305A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21515
- Airframe hours
- 6,371
- Engine
- Continental O-470-11B, 635 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Janet I. Churchill
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 30, 1985 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- Middletown, DE
- Destination
- Toughkenamon, PA
- Airport
- New Garden
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 55,563 total · 108 in this make and model · 90 as pilot in command · 82 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 226° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 18 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.