- Date
- March 5, 1987, 16:55 local (21:55 UTC)
- Place
- Danbury, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5277ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30615
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbank
Analysis
Student pilot lost directonal control on landing and the aircraft veered to the left of the runway and collided with a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5277E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271809
- Airframe hours
- 2,692
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles B.Wolgast
- Registered owner
- W. Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 16, 1986 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- DXR · Danbury, CT
- Airport
- DXR · Danbury, runway 26, 4,419 × 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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 50 °F