- Date
- April 17, 1988, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5060RCessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4997
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he made a hard landing and at that time he lost directional control of the aircraft. The plt stated that the acft bounced and when he tried to correct the bounce the acft yawed left. The rt main gear collapsed and the acft groundlooped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5060R
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502992
- Airframe hours
- 1,908
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Windsor, Robert W.
- Registered owner
- Robert W Windsor
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CEM · Central, AK
- Airport
- FAI · Fairbanks, runway 19R, 10,300 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 276 total · 13 in this make and model · 254 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
Other investigations on N5060R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.