- Date
- August 13, 1989, 12:55 local (16:55 UTC)
- Place
- Louisville, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4688FCessna P206A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890813028909A
- Case key
- 14403
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare for landing.
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
The plt rprtd that just before landing, the acft lost airspeed when it was too close to the ground to recover. Subsequently, it touched down hard on the grass rwy, the nose gear sheared off & the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4688F
- Reported as
- Cessna P206A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P206-0288
- Airframe hours
- 2,437
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Coe, Bill D.
- Registered owner
- Coe, Bill D
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 1989 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- 3G6 · Sebring, OH
- Destination
- OH01
- Airport
- OH01 · Yoder, runway 27, 2,900 × 300 ft, grass/turf
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 995 total · 300 in this make and model · 950 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CAK, 11 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.