- Date
- February 21, 1983, 00:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Scottsboro, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N758NTCessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6019
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
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Flare - improperCause
Lack of total experience in kind of aircraftCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Analysis
The acft was damaged in a hard landing. The plt did not believe the acft was substantially damaged and has disagreed with filing an accident report. Examination of the acft by a mechinic showed a partially collapsed nose gear buckled firewall and deformed forward fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N758NT
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1723235
- Airframe hours
- 430
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-K, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dr. Jerry A. Taylor
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 4A6 · Scottsboro, AL
- Airport
- 4A6 · Scottsboro Municipal
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 115 total · 15 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles