- Date
- November 12, 1987, 10:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Fallbrook, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N37188Beech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871112064889A
- Case key
- 25904
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was on his first solo flight in the Beech C23 aircraft. On landing the pilot pulled back on the elevator control and the aircraft began to porpoise. The aircraft touched down hard and the nose gear collapsed. The aircraft slid off the side of the runway into an embankment.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37188
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-2263
- Airframe hours
- 2,895
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Oceanair Flight Services, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 21, 1987 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- L32 · Oceanside, CA
- Airport
- L18 · Fallbrook Comm Airpark, runway 18, 2,165 × 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
- 67
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 118 total · 5 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- CRQ, 17 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.