# NTSB LAX88LA086: Cessna 195, Sonoma, CA, January 14, 1988

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: January 14, 1988, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place: Sonoma, CA
- Coordinates: 38.240703, -122.460739 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.2407&lon=-122.4607&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report August 8, 1989
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 25935
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX88LA086
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/25935/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX88LA086

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Hard landing, landing - flare/touchdown
  - flare - misjudged, pilot in command(cfi) (cause)
- Main gear collapsed, landing - roll
  - landing gear,main gear - overload
- Loss of control - on ground/water, landing - roll

## Analysis

DURING A LOCAL PILOT CHECK FLIGHT, UPON TOUCHDOWN, A LOUD BANG WAS HEARD. THE ACFT GRADUALLY VEERED TO THE RIGHT THEN GROUND LOOPED. A LOCAL MECHANIC WAS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY A FAILURE. THE PLT REPORTED THAT THE BRAKES WERE OPERATING NORMALLY PRIOR TO AND DURING THE FIRST TOUCH AND GO LANDING. THE RT LNDG GEAR STRUT BROKE AND EXHIBITED EVIDENCE OF A OVERLOAD FAILURE.

## Aircraft

- Registration: CGADA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 195
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 7600
- Airframe hours: 3027
- Engines: JACOBS R-755-B2 275 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Registered owner: Gregory C. Ely
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, June 9, 1987, 10 hours before
- Airport: STS, Sonoma Co

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 66; airline transport, flight instructor, commercial; airplane ratings: multi-engine land, single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; seat: right; flight hours: 17,931 total, 19 in this make and model, 15,930 as pilot in command, 42 in the last 90 days, 16 in the last 30 days, 3 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: calm
- Visibility: 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature: 52 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: STS

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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