- Date
- May 31, 1983, 05:30 local (09:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sebring, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N75773Cessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830531021979A
- Case key
- 30891
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the plt, he heard a 'thump' when he was taking off from orlando west arpt, but attributed it to the grass strip. When he landed at Sebring arpt, he heard a scraping sound as he lowered the nose & elected to go around. He decided the nosewheel was gone, so on the next landing, the eng was shut down. He then allowed the nose to settle & slid to a stop. Reportedly, the nosewheel was lost sometime prior to the landing, the strut was bent aft & the tips of the propeller blades were bent. Also, the sheriff's investigator's reported that the plt's door appeared to have come off in flt, all of the seats were missing except the plt's & marijuana residue was found in the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75773
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700643
- Engine
- Continental IO-520F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles Gary Fisher
- Registered owner
- San Andros Development Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- X30 · Orlando, FL
- Airport
- SEF · Sebring, runway 18, 5,000 × 300 ft, concrete
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 11,730 total · 6 in this make and model · 11,730 as pilot in command · 260 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB, 25 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.