Accident Details
Probable Cause and Findings
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall and inflight collision with the terrain.
Aircraft Information
Registered Owner (Current)
Analysis
On Monday, October 4, 1993, at about 1205 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172M, N20286, piloted by Mr. Roderick. Cram, nosed over during the landing roll at Wellsville Airport, Wellsville, New York. The airplane was substantially damaged. The pilot and the one passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and no flight plan had been filed. The flight was being conducted under 14 CFR 91.
According to the pilot's statement on the NTSB Form 6120.1/2:
...when calling for advisory at...Wellsville, we were given runway 28 with winds from 240 [degrees] at 10 [knots], gusting to 20...on final, I had the left wing slightly down...had in 10 degrees of flaps...landed on the main gear and started...rollout. The nose started to settle...the wind picked us up, it must have gusted from 35 to 40, from my left, putting us at right angle to the runway, about 20 to 30 feet off the ground. I...attempted to go around, but we were going too slow...and we were unable to recover...the plane moved to the right, we came down on the main gear...the bank that went down the other side of the taxiway was steep. The nose wheel went down [the bank] and the plane flipped over...
Data Source
Data provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). For more information on this event, visit the NTSB Records Search website. NTSB# NYC94LA001