- Date
- February 28, 1993, 13:56 local (21:56 UTC)
- Place
- Salem, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N12698Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930228003879A
- Case key
- 42993
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Probable cause
The failure of the engine oil pump impeller.
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 engine lost power in cruise flt and the pilot initiated an emergency forced landing. The acft nose landing gear sank into soft dirt during ground roll and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12698
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17262187
- Airframe hours
- 5,329
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Western Wings
- Registered owner
- Baker, Curtis H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 12, 1992 · 255 hours before
- Departed
- RDM · Redmond, OR
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 18 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLE, 10 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.