- Date
- January 21, 1987, 15:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4901GCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870121000909A
- Case key
- 22316
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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 nose gear strut depressed more than normal following what the student plt thought was a normal touchdown and the acft veered off the rwy. As control was lost, the nose gear tire blew and the acft subsequently struck a VASI light collapsing the nose gear. Investigation revealed that the nose gear strut was serviced to 10 PSI instead of the minimum of 45 PSI that was required by the acft maintenance manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4901G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273448
- Airframe hours
- 5,741
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ate Of Florida,Inc., doing business as American Flyers
- Registered owner
- Ate Of Florida Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 20, 1987 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- GLE · Gainsville, TX
- Airport
- FTW · Meacham, runway 16L, 7,500 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 31 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.