- Date
- October 7, 1984, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ashford, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N739UWCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841007074969A
- Case key
- 40076
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Analysis
The acft ground looped during a landing in a gusty x-wind. After directional control was lost the acft veered off the rwy striking trees. No accident report form was filed by the plt.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N739UW
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17270826
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AP, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Norman Grier
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- S36 · Kent, WA
- Destination
- S14 · Ashford, WA
- Airport
- S14 · Hewitt
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
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OLM, 23 nm away
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 N739UW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.