- Date
- September 21, 1990, 17:59 local (23:59 UTC)
- Place
- Havre, MT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4289VCessna 170
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900921041579A
- Case key
- 41285
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Probable cause
The selection of the wrong runway by the owner/student pilot and his failure to compensate for the wind during landing ground roll.
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
There was a student pilot in the left seat who was flying the aircraft. A private pilot (PIC) was in the right seat. The student pilot (passenger) attempted to land on rwy 25 in strong gusty quartering tailwind conditions and lost control during gnd landing roll. The acft departed the side of the 5200 by 100 ft rwy, impacted terrain and nosed over. Wx OBS at the time recorded the wind from 340 degrees at 11 gusting to 18 knots, which favored rwy 03.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4289V
- Reported as
- Cessna 170
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17018647
- Engine
- Continental C-145-2, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dennis A. Fitzpatrick
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CBT · Cutbank, MT
- Airport
- HVR · Havre, runway 25, 5,200 × 100 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 74 total · 5 in this make and model · 36 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 11 knots, gusting 17
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HVR
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 N4289V · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.