- Date
- November 10, 1985
- Place
- Knoxville, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N49164Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851110061359A
- Case key
- 7204
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Analysis
The plt was on a personal night proficiency flt. He made 2 stop & go landings without incident. On the 3rd landing, the acft touched down about 50 to 60 ft short of the rwy on upsloping terrain & the nose gear collapsed. The plt stated that he was making a power off apch. Also, he reported that the high intensity strobe lights marking the rwy threshold caused some interference with his visual perception.
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
- N49164
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281176
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Knoxville Flyers Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 5, 1985 · 23 hours before
- Airport
- DKX · Knoxville Downtown, runway 26, 3,500 × 75 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
- 60
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,126 total · 35 in this make and model · 55 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TYS
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 N49164 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.