- Date
- January 27, 1988, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- St. Anthony, ID
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2320ECessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880127001489A
- Case key
- 40774
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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
Terrain condition - snow coveredFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - bermFactor
Nose over
Analysis
During landing onto the 50 foot wide snow covered runway, directional control was lost with the aircraft drifting to the left of the runway, striking a snow berm, and then nosing over inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2320E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271232
- Airframe hours
- 1,685
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aero Mark
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- IDA · Idaho Falls, ID
- Destination
- U12 · St. Anthony, ID
- Airport
- U12 · Stanford Field, runway 22, 4,510 × 50 ft, snow
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 82 total · 3 in this make and model · 46 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IDA, 42 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.