- Date
- January 25, 1985, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Coushatta, LA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7718XCessna 172B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850125001719A
- Case key
- 21662
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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 was on its 1st flt following maintenance for a previous nose gear shimmy problem. When the student made his 1st attempt to land, he noticed that the nose gear seemed to be cocked, so he aborted the landing. On the 2nd attempt, the acft swerved to the right when the nose gear touched down, then ground looped into a ditch & came to rest upside down. An exam revealed that one of the nose gear clamp bolts was missing & a 2nd bolt was loose. This allowed the nose gear strut to pivot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7718X
- Reported as
- Cessna 172B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17248218
- Airframe hours
- 2,730
- Engine
- Continental O-300-C, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sammie J. Stanaland Sr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 13, 1984
- Departed
- F33 · Shreveport, LA
- Airport
- OR7 · The Red River, runway 18, 5,000 × 75 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 30 in this make and model · 19 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SHV, 40 nm away
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 N7718X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.