- Date
- July 25, 1982, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Somerset, KY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4670JCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820725031509A
- Case key
- 72645
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Level off - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Lack of total experience
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not possible
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolled
Analysis
The student piot was on a controlled cross-country flight. While landing at the first en route airport, the aircraft veered off the runway and the nose gear collapsed. A witness stated that the aircraft bounced during the landing and the nose gear collapsed prior to the time the aircraft departed the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4670J
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273661
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Dr. R.A. Repass
- Registered owner
- Tri-Cities Aviation, Inc.
- Departed
- TRI · Tri-Cities, TN
- Destination
- Moultrie, GA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SME · Somerset-Pulaski
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.