- Date
- April 23, 1993, 11:20 local (19:20 UTC)
- Place
- Goose Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5077GCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19930423010999A
- Case key
- 2335
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot's delay of remedial action during the simulated forced landing. Factors were the dual student's failure to maintain the proper descent rate, and his failure to attain proper alignment with the runway prior to touchdown.
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
While on the downwind portion of the traffic pattern the CFI initiated a simulated engine failure. He and the commercial student pilot stated that just before touchdown the airplane's rate of descent increased rapidly. The application of engine power did not arrest the rate of descent before the airplane landed hard. The airplane's left wing hit the ground first, followed by the left main landing gear. Both pilots stated that at the time of touchdown the airplane was in an approximate 5 degree left bank. The left main landing gear separated and the left wing hit the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5077G
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504018
- Airframe hours
- 1,647
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Alaska Wing Civil Air Patrol
- Registered owner
- Civil Air Patrol, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 1992 · 97 hours before
- Departed
- EDF · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- 0
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Z40 · Goose Bay, runway 25, 3,000 × 75 ft, gravel
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 5,670 total · 800 in this make and model · 5,452 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.