- Date
- August 29, 1988, 07:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Saint George, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5028UCessna 206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880829035769A
- Case key
- 17533
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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
Drg the landing roll, the nose gear collapsed, then the acft veered off the rwy, enctrd soft dirt/gravel terrain & nosed over. A post-acdnt inspn revealed that two attaching bolts on the left side of the nose gear yoke had failed & that the TW0 bolts on the right side were bent. The left forward bolt had evidence of a previous crack, in that the fracture area was dark & rusted. The left rear bolt was straight, but had failed at the thread base. There was evidence the right attaching bolts had become bent as the nose gear fork collapsed to the right.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5028U
- Reported as
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2060028
- Airframe hours
- 7,453
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Crock, Robert C.
- Registered owner
- Crock, Robert C
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 15, 1988 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- 1L9 · Parowan, UT
- Destination
- SGU
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SGU · Saint George Muni, runway 16, 6,100 × 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 443 total · 192 in this make and model · 443 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N5028U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.