- Date
- June 14, 1985, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lambertville, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8FTHaney Polliwagon
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850614026569A
- Case key
- 13100
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt was unable to flare the acft with full up elevator and the nose gear contacted the rwy during landing. The acft bounced and contacted the rwy again resulting in a gear collapse. The plt stated that the elevator did not provide the same amount of up travel as designed. In addition, the nose gear extension was longer than designed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8FT
- Reported as
- Haney Polliwagon
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 458
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Revmaster UNK, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dwight G. Haney
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 14, 1985 · 1 hours before
- Airport
- 5G9 · Toledo Suburban, runway 27, 3,258 × 50 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 963 total · 1 in this make and model · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TOL, 12 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.