Cessna 172M N1820V

Summary

On 9 May 2013 at about 15:30 local time, a Cessna 172M registered N1820V was involved in an accident near Thief River Falls, Minnesota, 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

9 May 2013 at 15:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States

Coordinates

48.0656, -96.1850

Aircraft

Cessna 172M

Registration

N1820V

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Thief River Falls → Thief River Falls

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN13CA272

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from the power line while on approach to landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

During the local flight, the pilot noted that the air was getting a little choppy and that he had to increase the wind correction angle in order to fly a normal heading. The pilot flew a normal downwind approach to the airstrip, but the wind correction angle was very large. He aborted the landing and did a full-power climb to a safe altitude. He said that he then elected to land on the east-west blacktop road right in front of the farm rather than the airstrip, which ran north-south. He circled due to traffic on the road and was concentrating on possible traffic as he approached to land. Soon thereafter, the pilot saw wires directly ahead, and he heard the airplane strike a wire; he applied full power, but the airplane descended and impacted a ditch on the right side and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial wing damage during the nose over. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.