- Date
- September 20, 1992, 13:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Avalon, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3288DCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920920037779A
- Case key
- 27769
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and a collapse of the left main landing gear.
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.
Analysis
The pilot said the aircraft was 'still high' when he flared for a landing and the airplane dropped to the runway on the left main landing gear. The left tire burst and the leftmain landing gear then collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3288D
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32086
- Airframe hours
- 3,600
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J1B, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Agustin B. Reyes
- Registered owner
- Rovero, Reyes & Dysart
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 7, 1992 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- TOA · Torrance, CA
- Airport
- AVX · Catalina Island, runway 22, 3,240 × 100 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,200 total · 424 in this make and model · 1,495 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °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.