- Date
- February 22, 1984, 10:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grangeville, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6522RCessna 172RGII
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840222004489A
- Case key
- 39878
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
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Terrain condition - icyFactor
Ground loop/swerve - not correctedCause
Terrain condition - snow covered
Nose over
Analysis
The acft ground looped during landing on an icy rwy and nosed over after leaving the rwy. The landing was made with a right quartering tailwind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6522R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RGII
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0191
- Airframe hours
- 1,399
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- V.S. Partnership
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 1, 1983 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- GNG · Gooding, ID
- Destination
- S80 · Grangeville, ID
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- S80 · Idaho County, runway 7, 4,507 × 60 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 475 total · 23 in this make and model · 316 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °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.