# Incident 19990728038119I: Cessna 177RG, Brooksville, FL, July 28, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 28, 1999, 11:45 local time
- Place: Brooksville, FL
- Airport: Hernando County
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 28.5166° N, 82.4047° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Brooksville, FL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=28.5166&lon=-82.4047&mi=10
- Aircraft: N177WB, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N177WB) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 177RG (registry code 2073709, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-177rg) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D (registry code 41593, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-360-a1b6d) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 177RG
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 510 total, 200 in this make and model, 16 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990728038119I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) ON JULY 28, 1999, AT 1145 EDT, A CESSNA 177RG, N177WB, REGISTERED TO SONLIGHT AVIATION, INC. COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND ON LANDING AT HERNANDO COUNTY AIRPORT, BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA, WHILE ON A PERSONAL FLIGHT.  VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT THE TIME.  THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE AND THE PILOT AND PASSENGER WERE NOT INJURED.  THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT THE SAME AIRPORT AS ABOVE.  INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE CLEVIS THAT FASTENS THE NOSE GEAR DOOR TO THE NOSE GEAR STRUT HAD BEEN TIGHTENED SO MUCH THAT IT DID NOT ALLOW THE DOOR TO PIVOT.  THIS NOSE GEAR DOOR WAS BENT AND CRACKED AND WHEN THE COWLING WAS REMOVED AND THE NOSE GEAR DOOR WAS MOVED THROUGHOUT ITS RANGE OF MOVEMENT, IT CAUGHT ON THE FORWARD PART OF THE COWLING, NOT ALLOWING THE NOSE GEAR DOOR TO OPEN PROPERLY.

## Other reports on N177WB (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19890302031579I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19890302031579I), Mar 2, 1989: Cessna 177RG (N177WB), St Louis, MO, Minor damage. Unable to lock main gear down. Elected to land gear up. Found landing gear actuator rod end had failed.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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