- Date
- June 12, 2021, 09:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Fields, OR · highway
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N20406Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210612006409A
- Case key
- 103278
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing on a highway, which resulted in an impact with terrain and subsequent nose over.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that, he initiated a landing on a highway near a remote town for lunch. After touchdown, the airplane veered left, and the pilot applied full right rudder control input, but the airplane exited the roadway surface and impacted terrain. The airplane nosed over, and the right-wing lift strut and empennage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20406
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17261265
- Built
- 1972
- Airframe hours
- 5,856.2
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320-E2D, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Chewelah Flyers Inc
- Registered owner
- Chewelah Flyers Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 23, 2020 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- KNBO · Burns, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- None
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Angle of attack indicator, Stall warning system
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 9, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 338.4 total · 310.8 in this make and model · 251.8 as pilot in command · 11.7 in the last 90 days · 10.6 in the last 30 days · 1.3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KREO, 41 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KREO 121552Z AUTO VRB03KT 18/07 A3010 RMK AO1 SLP162 T01830072=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 21, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.8 MB in all.
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 N20406 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.