Probable cause
The pilot’s decision to attempt a touch-and-go landing on a narrow, ice-covered road with snow banks on each side.
NTSB analysis
While performing a touch-and-go landing on a narrow, ice-covered road with snow banks on each side, the airplane encountered a rough area and skidded left. The left main landing gear contacted a snow bank on the left side of the road, and the airplane flipped over, sustaining substantial damage to the cowling, wings, vertical stabilizer, and rudder. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Text from the NTSB. Open the NTSB docket for CEN13CA176 for the full record.
Event
- Date
- Feb 24, 2013
- Type
- Accident
- Place
- Vineland, Minnesota
- Highest injury
- None
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- Light
- Day
Cessna 172A
- N-number
- N76NG
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial
- Operating rule
- Part 91 (general aviation)
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
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