- Date
- July 27, 1987, 19:00 local (Jul 28, 1987, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, ND
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1686ZCessna 185A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 17285
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.
Analysis
The pvt plt was receiving dual instruction for the purpose of a checkout in the Cessna 185. The dual student landed the acft on runway 34 with a right crosswind. During the landing roll the acft began to 'weathervane' and the rt wing began to rise. Remedial action was taken by the flt instructor but the acft left main gear failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1686Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 185A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1850486
- Airframe hours
- 2,666
- Engine
- Continental I0-470-F, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jeff Faught
- Registered owner
- Int'L Aircraft Management, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 29, 1987
- Departed
- 5ND6 · Hillsboro, ND
- Airport
- 5ND6 · Hillsboro Muni., runway 34, 3,300 × 60 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
- 45
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,202 total · 1,400 in this make and model · 8,028 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 65° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg