- Date
- February 26, 2024, 12:32 local (19:32 UTC)
- Place
- Casper, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N739UECessna 172N
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 193848
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while taxiing with a crosswind.
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, after landing with a crosswind, he exited the runway onto a taxiway using crosswind correction with the ailerons and elevator. Shortly after, the airplane was struck by a gust of wind and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder and both wings. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N739UE
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17270810
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 10,891
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 SERIES, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- American Patrols Inc
- Registered owner
- American Patrols Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 2024 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- CYS · Cheyenne, WY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- CPR · Casper/Natrona County Intl, runway 03/21, 10,165 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- 21
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 10, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,106 total · 936 in this make and model · 916 as pilot in command · 301 in the last 90 days · 72 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 36 knots, gusting 53
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.55 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KCPR, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KCPR 261953Z 24039G53KT 10SM CLR 11/M08 A2951 RMK AO2 PK WND 24053/1949 SLP968 T01111083
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 15, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 MB in all.