- Date
- December 13, 1992, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Quaker Street, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46725Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921213055299A
- Case key
- 37280
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to determine runway conditions prior to landing which resulted in the airplane being damaged upon touchdown on the snow covered runway.
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 made a landing on a runway covered with approximately 20 inches of wet snow. Upon touchdown, the nose wheel dug into the snow and the airplane pitched over on its nose, struck both wing tips and spun approx 90 degrees to the right. The pilot said he was aware that he was landing on an unplowed runway; however, it had only snowed 2-4 inches where he departed from and he believed there was a similar snow fall at his destination airport. There was no record that the pilot checked with flight service prior to departure, and there was no NOTAM published on the airport conditions at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46725
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283095
- Airframe hours
- 4,829
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Theodore S. La Fond
- Registered owner
- Paul R. Moore Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 26, 1992 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- GLF · Glens Falls, NY
- Airport
- N65 · Knox, runway 27, 2,400 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 303 total · 64 in this make and model · 256 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N46725 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.