- Date
- June 20, 1984, 11:02 local (17:02 UTC)
- Place
- Las Cruces, NM
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3039QCessna 182K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840620025889A
- Case key
- 16408
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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
During landing the acft ballooned, stalled and contacted the rwy hard enough to break off the nose gear. The plt added pwr and aborted the landing. Acft was then landed in a sandy area along the left side of the rwy where it nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3039Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 182K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18258039
- Airframe hours
- 3,500
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Quebec Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 31, 1984
- Departed
- CNM · Carlsbad, NM
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- LRU · Las Cruces-Crawford, runway 8, 6,071 × 100 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 118 total · 118 in this make and model · 71 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.