- Date
- October 29, 1983, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dauphin Island, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6673TCessna 150A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831029055809A
- Case key
- 6378
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Analysis
The acfts nose gear collapsed during landing. The student plt was on a solo training mission to practice landings. The plt said he made a normal landing and as the nose gear was lowered he added slight right rudder to hold a roll parallel to the rwy centerline. Immediately after contacting the rwy the nose gear collapsed aft and the acft slid off the rwy. Post accident examination of the nose gear showed that the break occurred at an old repair weld on a brace.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6673T
- Reported as
- Cessna 150A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15059073
- Airframe hours
- 3,400
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert L.C. Cooley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 30, 1983 · 110 hours before
- Departed
- MOB · Mobile, AL
- Destination
- 4R9 · Dauphin Island, AL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 4R9 · Dauphin Island, runway 12, 3,000 × 80 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFM
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 N6673T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.