- Date
- February 18, 1985, 15:24 local (23:24 UTC)
- Place
- Modesto, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N80860Globe GC1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850218003459A
- Case key
- 24655
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertent
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
The plt attempted a simulated forced landing, stalled the acft 10 to 15 feet high and made a hard landing causing the right main gear to fail.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80860
- Reported as
- Globe GC1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 263
- Airframe hours
- 1,200
- Engine
- Continental C-145, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard C. Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 31, 1984
- Departed
- 022 · Columbia, CA
- Destination
- MOD · Modesto, CA
- Airport
- MOD · Modesto City Co., runway 28, 3,451 × 150 ft, asphalt
N80860Registration cancelled May 13, 2013 · Globe GC-1BAirframe modelGlobe GC-1BEngine modelContinental C125 series
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
- 52
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,930 total · 405 in this make and model · 4,800 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MOD
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.