- Date
- June 22, 1983, 19:00 local (Jun 23, 1983, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tracy, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7449JPiper PA-28R-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830622060289A
- Case key
- 23761
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft made a hard landing while on an instructional flt. On the seventh approach for landing the nose gear green light did not come on. The CFI continued the approach while tapping on the bulb. When he decided to go around the acft had descended so low that it impacted the rwy hard enough to bend the left wing main spar. A go-around and landing was made and the acft received no further damage. The nose gear light did not illuminate for the final landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7449J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-30798
- Airframe hours
- 5,000
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Squadron II
- Registered owner
- Frank R. Mason
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · November 1, 1982
- Departed
- SJC · San Jose, CA
- Airport
- 036 · Tracy Muni, runway 25, 3,418 × 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
- 63
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,433 total · 203 in this make and model · 6,230 as pilot in command · 43 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 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 N7449J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.