- Date
- February 16, 1992, 16:15 local (Feb 17, 1992, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Nordman, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96617Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920216004929A
- Case key
- 41631
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Probable cause
The pilot selected unsuitable terrain. Factors contributing to the accident were: the snow covered runway, and the pilot in command's inadequate preflight planning.
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 was positioning the aircraft to the priest river usfs airstrip. Upon arrival he overflew the airstrip to ascertain wind and surface conditions. The runway was snow covered. The pilot then attempted to conduct a soft field touch and go to check the runway surface condition during which the aircraft rapidly decelerated and then nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96617
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276095
- Airframe hours
- 4,126
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Felts Field Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Felts Field Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 9, 1992 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- 66S · Coolin, ID
- Airport
- 67S · Usfs Priest River, runway 14, 4,600 × 175 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,270 total · 500 in this make and model · 1,115 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.