- Date
- November 3, 1966
- Place
- Wendover, NV · WENDOVER, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8613BCessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report February 3, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 120162
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3557 66/11/3 WENDOVER NEV CESSNA 172 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 27, 52 TOTAL TIME - 1645 N8613B PX- 0 0 0 SOLO HOURS, 14 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BUSH-LELAND TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GROUND-WATER LOOP-SWERVE LANDING: ROLL COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES - AIRPORT CONDITIONS: SOFT RUNWAY REMARKS- ON LANDING AT HOME AIRPORT AIRCRAFT STRUCK SOFT SPOT ON DIRT RUNWAY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8613B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Bush-Leland
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