- Date
- December 11, 1982, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Ocoee, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95897Cessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 11, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821211063489A
- Case key
- 72078
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 - misjudgedFactor
Distance - misjudgedFactor
Flare - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overload
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - failure,total
Analysis
Plt approached with a higher than normal airspeed. The acft touched down nose wheel first about 1/3 down the rwy collapsing the nose gear causing the propeller to strike the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95897
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266672
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Russell J. Burnup
- Registered owner
- Ernest M. Kollman
- Departed
- Ft. Meyers, FL
- Destination
- Ocoee, FL
- Airport
- 29X · Orlando West Airport, runway 18R, 3,500 × 0 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 45 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 12 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.