Cessna 172N N6410F

Summary

On 27 July 2010 at about 15:30 local time, a Cessna 172N registered N6410F was involved in an accident near Stonington, Maine, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

27 July 2010 at 15:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Stonington, Maine, United States

Nearest airport

Stonington Municipal Airport (93B)

Coordinates

44.1731, -68.6803

Aircraft

Cessna 172N

Registration

N6410F

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Limington → Stonington

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA10CA381

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during a crosswind landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the pilot, as he flared the airplane for a crosswind landing to runway 25, he encountered a gust of wind. The airplane bounced once on the runway and veered left and right several times before the pilot was "unable to redirect the aircraft back" as it veered off the right side of the runway, into grass which sloped down to a drainage ditch. The pilot attempted to recover the airplane for "several hundred feet," before the right main landing gear got caught in higher grass and mud, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane. He further reported 888 hours of total flight time, including 857 hours in the make and model of the accident airplane. A weather report issued around the time of the accident, at an airport about 19 miles to the southwest, included winds from 290 at 12 knots, gusting to 15 knots.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.