- Date
- March 11, 1986, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Yadkinville, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4752XCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860311006869A
- Case key
- 7006
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
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - failure,totalFactor
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overloadFactor
Nose over
Analysis
The acft was landed improperly and after bouncing two of three times the nose gear separated. The acft then nosed over and suffered further damage to the prop, wings and tail.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4752X
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15064802
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Billy Darin Moxley
- Registered owner
- Billy Moxley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Elkin, NC
- Destination
- Yadkinville, NC
- Airport
- PVT · Yadkinville
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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 32 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.