- Date
- April 27, 1986, 11:40 local (19:40 UTC)
- Place
- Columbia, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7338FCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25139
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.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Flare - not performedCause
Weather condition - high density altitudeFactor
Weather evaluation - not performedCause
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
The plt misjudged the flare during landing and the acft touched down in a nose low attitude shearing the nose gear from the acft. The density altitude was calculated to be 3,500 ft when the accident occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7338F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273251
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviation Training
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HWD · Hayward, CA
- Destination
- 022 · Columbia, CA
- Airport
- 022 · Columbia, runway 17, 4,060 × 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 167 total · 29 in this make and model · 77 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SCK, 41 nm away
Other investigations on N7338F · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB LAX85LA363Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportTurlock, CAOn August 22, 1985, a Cessna 172N, N7338F, collided with a 3FT tall pole while taking off from Turlock, CA. VMC existed at the time. The ac was substantially damaged and the plt and his 2 pax were not injured. The plt stated that he was on the rwy when in…NTSB LAX84LA503Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportHayward, CAWhile taxiing to rwy 28 on the taxiway the acft was overtaken by a vw bus which hit the acfts left wing.