- Date
- April 22, 1986, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Noblesville, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N39693Piper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860422067959A
- Case key
- 13448
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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.
Analysis
Two successful takeoffs and landings had previously been completed during the training flight. On the approach for the third landing, the crew received a three-green indication, but after touchdown, the nose gear folded and the aircraft settled on its nose. An investigation revealed that a nose gear assembly bolt was missing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39693
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44-7995025
- Airframe hours
- 1,796
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Indianapolis Aviation
- Registered owner
- Burd & Kimmel Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 1986 · 6 hours before
- Airport
- 4I8 · Indianapolis Metropolitan, runway 32, 3,000 × 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,327 total · 18 in this make and model · 2,218 as pilot in command · 156 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 13 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 18 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.
Other investigations on N39693 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.