- Date
- April 20, 1983, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- New Braunfels, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2419UCessna 172D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 20983
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.
Hard landing
Flare - misjudgedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overload
Nose down
Analysis
The acft made a hard landing which was hard enough to blow the nose gear tire and collapse the nose gear assembly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2419U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17250019
- Airframe hours
- 1,629
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John B. Mathews
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 15, 1982 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- 11XS · Bulverde, TX
- Airport
- 3RT · New Braunfels, runway 17, 5,400 × 150 ft, asphalt
N2419URegistration cancelled Sep 6, 2012 · Cessna 172DAirframe modelCessna 172DEngine modelContinental 0-300 series
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 83 total · 29 in this make and model · 29 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg