- Date
- May 5, 1987, 17:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Palmyra, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N78506Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30642
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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
Student pilot experienced up and downdrafts while on approach for landing at reigle airport. The pilot was unable to maintain directional control during roll out, ran off the left side of the runway, and across a grass field. The acft then nosed over when the nose wheel dug into the wet earth at the edge of a dirt farm field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N78506
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257643
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles Reigle
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Airport
- 58N · Reigle Field, runway 31, 1,955 × 40 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
- 22
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8 total · 8 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg