- Date
- May 19, 1984, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ortonville, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N455CLuscombe 8E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840519017989A
- Case key
- 12619
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.
Undershoot
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Hard landing
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
The acft landed hard short of the rwy, bounced, & both landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N455C
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4254
- Airframe hours
- 2,127
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Judith P. Gray
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 3BB · Troy, MI
- Airport
- 3M17 · Willie Run, runway 27, 1,900 × ft, grass/turf
N455CRegistered now · Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8EAirframe modelSilvaire LUSCOMBE 8EEngine modelContinental C90 series
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 129 total · 33 in this make and model · 68 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PTK, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.