- Date
- August 16, 1983, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Front Royal, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6171QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830816041729A
- Case key
- 5957
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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 student pilot was on his first solo cross country flt. During the approach to Front Royal the student was advised by UNICOM that a deer was on the rwy. The UNICOM operator suggested that he buzz the arpt to chase the deer away. The student heard only that that a deer was on the rwy. As he continued his approach he was advised that the deer was off to the left of the rwy. The student spotted the deer just before touchdown. When the acft landed it bounced and came down hard on the nose gear. The nose gear folded back and severed a fuel line. Sparks from the propeller hitting the rwy, ignited the fuel. The pilot exited the acft and did not turn off the fuel. The acft was destroyed in the fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6171Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285182
- Airframe hours
- 825
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Eagle Air, Incorporated
- Registered owner
- Joe D. Martin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 5, 1983 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- HGR · Hagerstown, MD
- Destination
- FRR · Front Royal, VA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- FRR · Front Royal-Warren County, runway 27, 3,000 × 50 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 24 total · 24 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.