- Date
- March 16, 1989, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Honesdale, PA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5517RCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890316004109A
- Case key
- 36386
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Probable cause
The loss of directional control by the pilot during landing.
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 pilot stated that while landing a gust of wind caught the aircraft from the left and pushed it off the side of the runway into soft mud. The wheel dug into the mud and the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5517R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17253093
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard Valentino
- Registered owner
- Richard & Nancy Valentino
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 19, 1988 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- N30 · Hanesdale, PA
- Airport
- N30 · Cherry Ridge, runway 35, 2,270 × 50 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 19 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.