- Date
- November 30, 2000, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mobile, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8507BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001130031439A
- Case key
- 50924
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare during landing that resulted in a hard landing and the subsequent overload failure of the nose gear assembly.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the pilot, during landing on the grass strip, the airplane bounced, power was added and shortly after, the nose gear collapsed. Examination of the nose gear attach points found the gear had separated in overload.
Factual narrative
On November 30, 2000, at 1430 central standard time, a Cessna 172, N8507B, registered to Pruitt Homes of Missouri, Inc., was substantially damaged when the landing gear collapsed during landing roll at Skywest Airpark Airport in Mobile, Alabama. The private pilot, the sole occupant aboard, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated from Fairhope Municipal Airport in Fairhope, Alabama, at 1400.
According to the pilot, during landing on the grass strip she came in with 40 degrees of flaps and a airspeed of 65 to 75 knots. She made a harder than usual landing on the main wheels and bounced around 5 to 6 feet. She landed the aircraft and upon rollout the nose landing gear collapsed.
Examination of the nose gear attach points found the gear had separated in overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8507B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36207
- Airframe hours
- 3,656
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stella S. Bodenmann
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 11, 2000 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- 4R4 · Fairhope, AL
- Destination
- S26
- Airport
- S26 · Skywest Airpark, runway 29, 2,467 × 110 ft, grass/turf
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 121 total · 30 in this make and model · 38 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MOB, 7 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8507B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.