- Date
- July 23, 1985, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Charlottesville, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89432Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11186
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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
Stall/mush - not maintainedCause
Flare - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
The student plt entered a left base for rwy 03, and according to a witness, made a hard landing on the main gear. After touchdown, the nose gear collapsed and the acft slid approximately 80 feet down the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89432
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282742
- Airframe hours
- 1,020
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skytech, Inc
- Registered owner
- William J. Scarlet
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 26, 1985 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- MTN · Balitimore, MD
- Destination
- CHO · Charlottesville, VA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CHO · Charlot. Albermarle, runway 3, 6,001 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 88 total · 88 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHO