- Date
- October 3, 1985, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Odessa, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N92755Cessna 182N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851003056259A
- Case key
- 21980
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During touch-&-go landing practice on her second solo training flight, the student plt made a hard landing. The nose gear strut was driven upward through the firewall and the prop was damaged. The acft bounced/porpoised three times & came to rest off the left side of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92755
- Reported as
- Cessna 182N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18260341
- Airframe hours
- 2,097
- Engine
- Continental O-470-B, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joylyn R./Webster R. Russell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- E02 · Odessa, TX
- Airport
- EO2 · Odessa Schlemeyer, runway 20, 5,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 13 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Observed at
- MAF
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 N92755 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.