- Date
- October 11, 1982, 18:00 local (Oct 12, 1982, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Redlands, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1252WWaco SRE
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report October 11, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821011055689A
- Case key
- 72360
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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
During landing into a sun low on the horizon the acft drifted left & touched down slightly off the rwy. The left gear caught a construction hole & sheared off. The acft went out of control & struck a rock pile shearing the right gear off. The rwy recently had a new rwy lighting system installed & there were multiple hazards such as holes & rock piles adjacent to the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1252W
- Reported as
- Waco SRE
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5133
- Airframe hours
- 1,800
- Engine
- P & W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William G. Nutting
- Registered owner
- William G. Nutting
- Departed
- L-12 · Redlands, CA
- Destination
- L-12 · Redlands, CA
- Airport
- L-12 · Redlands Municipal, runway 26, 4,500 × 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
- 56
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,700 total · 775 in this make and model · 775 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Temperature
- 176 °F
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 N1252W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.