- Date
- March 15, 1992, 10:08 local (17:08 UTC)
- Place
- Billings, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4615LCessna 172G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920315006309A
- Case key
- 41641
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor was the crosswind.
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
Following landing on runway 27R at the Billings logan intnl airport, the aircraft weathervaned to the left. The solo student pilot attempted to correct with rudder during which the aircraft nosed over coming to rest inverted on the fixed distance marker 1000 feet from the runway threshold. Winds during the morning of the accident were consistently 220 degrees magnetic at 12 to 13 knots. The student pilot had accrued a total of 29 hours of flight experience of which 8 hours had been logged in the 30 days previous to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4615L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17254610
- Airframe hours
- 1,638
- Engine
- Continental O-300-C, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mescalleros Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Mescalleros Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 29, 1991 · 101 hours before
- Airport
- BIL · Billings Logan Int'L, runway 27, 10,528 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 29 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 30 °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.