- Date
- July 30, 1983, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Three Rivers, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N735ACCessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830730036719A
- Case key
- 20992
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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 acft nosed down during landing after the nose gear failed. The acft had landed earlier that day with a flat nose wheel tire. The plt fixed the flat and thought the acft was all right but later in flt he thought the nosewheel was cocked sideways because the acft was unstable to fly. An A&P mechanic also thought the gear may have been damaged by theprevious landing. No metallurgical examination was conducted on the failed fork of the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N735AC
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18265262
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Turbo Equipment Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- Private, runway 33, 2,400 × 50 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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 115 total · 109 in this make and model · 72 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °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 N735AC · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.