- Date
- May 4, 1992, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Parkdale, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5096ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920504013239A
- Case key
- 41668
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to use the proper touchdown point for landing. A factor relating to the accident was the soft dirt runway surface.
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 landed on a soft portion of his private turf airstrip where he had recently reworked the landing surface. The aircraft sank into the soft dirt and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5096E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271709
- Airframe hours
- 5,336
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Vancouver Aviation
- Registered owner
- Vancouver Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 8, 1992 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- 60S · Vancouver, WA
- Airport
- NONE · Monroe Farm, runway 18, 1,320 × 15 ft, dirt
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
- 73
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,750 total · 500 in this make and model · 5,600 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DLS, 13 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.