- Date
- September 9, 1990, 11:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Lewiston, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9895VCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900909038709A
- Case key
- 41272
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Probable cause
The failure of a nose landing gear fork, which resulted in the pilot's loss of directional control, and a nose-over after an excursion from the 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 of the Cessna 172 lost directinal control when he lowered the nose-wheel to the runway after a normal landing. The nose-strut fork failed at that time, causing an excursion off the left side of the runway. Evidence indicated a failure of the casting along a casting line on the nose whell fork.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9895V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 725842
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sunrise Aviation
- Registered owner
- Unkown
- Departed
- PSC · Pasco, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- LWS · Lewiston, runway 8, 6,512 × 150 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 47 in this make and model · 33 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N9895V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.